Coal Mining's Environmental Impact | From The Ashes
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- In Appalachia, coal companies blow the tops off of mountains to get at the coal. The damage this does to the surrounding environment and water supply is devastating.
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At least its short
Minecraft didn't teach me this.
starpravesh mineecraft is shit, because it is not reality!
Levi Bevi 2 Levi Bevi never played this "mineecraft" btw it's a joke if you couldn't tell
Levi Bevi 2 Levi Bevi its obviously a joke bro
i think minecraft is the devil - Steve
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I’m here cause my teacher told me to watch this
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"You can't put the mountain back together". True, but then there are mountains of trash that we're building. 🤔
Choose your battles.
Don't be mean. bro
@@licharlie1331 sorry bro I didn't intend to be mean to trash.
Will mountain of trash benefit the environment?
It's sad that future generations to come will have to suffer the consequences of man's greed.
Yeah they will light their houses again with candles! 😂
@@jopete681and drive a prius
@@jopete681you can deny the havoc humans are wreaking on earth all you want but I promise your grandkids are not going to thank you for it.
Coal is mined as well as iron, copper, and other important metals and semi-metals used in industry. May we have a video clip on those other mining procesess too.
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Did this lady say her neighbor went blind from drinking the water?! And the water is flammable? I need more explanation please.
Yes, she did say words to that effect. No idea how that could come about as I am not an 'ist' but that is what she said.
This is what is happening in Meghalaya despite being illegal due to laws passed by the NGT
Please help me understand. Everything that we own and use in our daily lives is provided for us from this earth. Natural resources are essential to our survival. Is anything really sustainable once the human race decides it's necessary or desired? How are we supposed to harvest resources without any environmental impact? In my eyes, that's impossible.
the definition of renewable energy is that it replenishes itself, solar, wind, hydro etc use natural resources yes, but nothing is used up so they're effectively carbon neutral and the overall environmental impact is almost zero compared with fossil fuels. I would also agree with your point on the basis of some aspects of production such as forming hydrocarbons to make plastics but even if this continued, the burning of fossil fuels to create energy has the biggest impact and the US has one of the highest capacities in the world to move away from that. Many countries in Europe are continually investing and increasing their renewable usage, a couple of weeks ago the UK was powered by 50% renewables and there have been many headlines of countries using almost 100% at times- it is possible to drastically cut down our fossil fuel usage and as a result minimise environmental destruction.
phillybigdoh But er do not have to abuse.. even wild animal only eat what they need at a time when needs come. you see them killing the earth Do You? '-'
Good points Rhianna. It is a difficult transition when you have greed of corporations and the demand from the public. Greed is like water, they travel down the path of least resistance.
Private Eyes. I'm not talking about utopia. If you want to dream of a society where people eat what they need and live in grass huts, that's fine. Please don't compare people to wild animals. Especially when you're probably typing from a phone powered by a lithium battery dug out from the flats of Bolivia....
phillybigdoh thats why i believe in the eradication of the human species
Yeah, it's law in some areas to restore areas to the state they were in before the mining takes place. I have family members that make sure this happens.
In reality it basically never happens.
May I please know where are you from?
@@seigeengine it does and it takes time. its their duty to do so.
@@cliffordjed3370 And in reality it almost never happens.
@@seigeengine i guess your miners arent responsible enough. cant really do anything about that.
Who watches these in corona time?
Actually watching it for EM.
Actually watching it for social studies.
Still corona time and I’m watch for English
Probelm is we don't want to use the solar energy but we demand govt to give quality power without effecting environment. So generate green energy first and start question the government. Because there are doing to meet our demands .
It is a mandate/prohibited not to allow detonation of mountains, topography for the sake of coal production, as EPA, Kyoto Protocol, and OECD are implemented worldwide that does not allow unethical standards for the environment. It is of countries EU-UK, EU-ASIA, the Americas. The ethical standards are implemented as these are the cause of landslides and soil erosion on some parts, kilometers apart from the sites. These shall all be ended. NON BAILABLE. Worldwide.
I don't care who you are, this is really sad.
People that are against coal companies should donate all of their coal products. I would to super happy to take those products. Feel stupid yet? Leave a comment.
Nobody is against coal! We’re against how it’s extracted now. How can you people not understand this?
Strip mining is such a disrespectful practice, the earth provides for us without destroying it
Strip mining is really helpful in Minecraft. You get hella diamonds my guy
This is so sad 😢 I think crystal mining is bad too
Richest country in all of human history right here
Reminds me of Boyd Crowder. "FIRE IN THE HOLE!"
I live in southern Illinois coalmine town called Benton illinois.mosely shaft mining.there was stripp mining to.
Look at it this way: Coal will be used when it is cheaper than solar, wind, hydro, etc. The more coal we mine, the less there is to mine in cheap easy places, this leaves, the soon to be majority, in impossible to reach places, thus increasing the cost of coal above that of renewable resources forcing the planet to switch to renewable. This will increase the demand that will then end up reducing the cost to switch, making any new technology for mining fossil fuels useless. The more revenue created from the new market, the more will go into funding research and development for the few places that haven’t switched.
Td:dr
The world won’t switch to renewable resources until it is cheaper, which won’t happen until the cost of fossil fuels goes up or the price of renewable goes down. Both will happen when the world runs out of mineable fossil fuels.
Renewables will never be cheaper than nuclear, and nuclear is unlimited. So wind & solar are just a scam and a joke, greenwashing for natural gas.
Gg
that's right but there's abundant coal, yes no doubt one day fossil fuels will finish but maybe earth becomes uninhabitable for humans before that because of the pollution and global warming and climate change caused by these.
@@whykhr although I 100 completely agree that nuclear is a really good and underused power source you dont have to be rude, Solar and wind energy are useful too
I'm here because I need to 🤧😭
True you can’t put a mountain back together and we cannot reverse time.
Ya :c
Well you want current, factories and the car you are driving did come from factory that run on current but you don't want hills to vanish...not fair...there's should a trade off always with mother nature...
She says all this while driving a truck whose raw materials came from mining operations just like coal mining.
Curtis Seebaran yeah so? What's worse tearing down a mountain fucking up water sources and ruining beautiful landscapes or driving a truck? Shhh
colson simper Are you missing the point? Mining operations produce iron ore which is refined and made into the millions of trucks. Think how many strip mining operations are carried out all over the world. That is all. Why point at coal only. Lets have a dscussion about all mining operations that have the same effect just like you pointed out in your reply. Just think how many environments were "destroyed" just to make those trucks.
Curtis Seebaran Coal is a hot topic right now because it's a dying industry and Trump is giving it attention cause he's a moron. Also, we do point out and have been pointing out other mining processes such as natural gas and fracking it's just that you tried to make a point but failed.
Hermes Nettel Well I guess I have. Take care.
Hermes Nettel By the way, who is "we." Do you work for National Geographic?
She’s speaks while driving a car made from steel made by coal
Coal wasn't the problem. How we extract coal and the damage we tolerate as a result are the problems discussed.
@@seigeengine how bout making programs after mining to restore natural habitat as part of the mining process. Nature can heal
@@fteambjj Oh, were you intending to put the mountain that was completely destroyed back somehow? Do tell.
@@seigeengine lol, you can plant a variety of plants and trees, in every forest there wont be only 1 type of isnt it mate? Or do you live in an imaginary world with only one type of trees? If you're smart you can plant trees that doesnt take long to grow to rehabilitate the land and people have done that and succesfully. You dont have to be rocket scientist to plant a variety of native trees and plants in the area wherever you are lol, sure forests are compex but are you that naive? If you live in a city than you should shut your mouth because whereever you are as long as you live in a city that cut down forest and mountains to make you comfortable and you talk as if forests arent being demoslihed everyday inch by inch to pave a way to make more citites near you to support the growing population which is happeneing faster than a rehabilitated area where lets say types of trees that are planted takes 10 years to grow than stop being a hypocrite mate and think of solutions. As for mountains..... Pretty sure you really live on lalaland. Terrain changes all the time lol, go and learn some geology. Some area takes aeon, some area changes with the weather, some area can change because of human intervention but unless its china that build a dam so big that it slowed earth rotation by 0.06 second and threaten the extinction of wildlife and plants in the yangtze river then you aint gonna do jacksht to the environment. Unless we're talking fracking which really can poison the land
@@fteambjj Stop whining. You're wrong. Get over it.
you can't comment on environment... from xxth floor of a concrete building made out of rock and with AC on
Yes, yes you can.
Anything you own that was not from a farm comes from the earth, and was mined or extracted somewhere. The device you are commenting from is made of metals and plastic. You are probably sitting in a house with heat or AC. Its so easy to sit and critisize the mining industry, but as long as there is demand, mining will exist. Responsible, sustainable mining is the key to limiting environmental damage. Casting mining as evil does not solve any problems.
I'm sure National Geographic did their video edits from a nice air conditioned tv studio, and paid very little for that energy cost. Unless we are ok with going back to the stone age, we'll have to make peace with mining.
Once that forest is cut down for a mall parking lot or a housing subdivision... what's the difference
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Coal fire generated power is probably the cheapest electricity we can get. Until the consumers are willing AND actually go to more expensive and more environmentally friendly sources will the coal die out. Also coal is how you get iron out of iron ore. You could use an electrical process but I don't know of any.
bitsnpieces11 Natural gas is vastly cheaper than coal and both solar and wind are increasingly dropping in price compared to coal.
I think he means to say coke distilled from bituminous coal which is used as a reducing agent for smelting iron ore.
renegade and Curtis: The costs of the others are getting there but still higher, the transmission system for gas is more expensive then for coal. The coke is just a more efficient way to heat, the coal (anthracite) supplies the enormous amount of heat for the reducing reactions to occur and the actual melting to occur. We still have a way to go to be able to afford to stop using coal, but we are getting there.
Gas is cheaper than coal right now because Wall St Banks are keeping the Shale Gas bubble afloat with giant infusions of free or cheap cash, selling gas at $3/mmbtu when the avg production cost is $8/mmbtu. When the Shale Gas bubble bursts we will be back to coal, as happened in the 70's with conventional gas. Wind & solar, the only scalable renewables, are a scam and a joke, not even remotely capable of replacing coal.
@@renegade_legend2583 still not cheap enough to justify replacing coal, try again in like 2 decades
Oil, gas and mineral industry are the dermatologist of earth.
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talk to your local representative ya cooks
I just think no one has write to take away the nature
Well they did turn that into steel which then buit the railways which then built America!!!
00:30......ONCE they are gone, they DO NOT make Allowances Further to The OTHERS FAILURES.
My son can know this
TRUTH.
It's The Way IT is. Some things Will Mind never Change.
By Alister Doyle | OSLO
Institutional investors with $26 trillion in assets under management called on Group of Seven leaders on Monday to phase out the use of coal in power generation to help limit climate change, despite strong opposition from Washington.
04/06/18
Wow....
Bruh coal taste really good 10/10 good for the stomach but not for the environment.
I like how says, the coal and oil companies shouldn't take something away that so many people care about, well she is driving a car??? if you leave the mountain, then what would power your car. seemed a little hypocritical, and I'm certain everyone cares about there car
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I'm guessing since she is in a small mountain town she has low income so cant afford those new electric cars. She must be getting her power from maybe those coal power plants. So you expect her to somehow get a new car she might not be able afford and get power from somewhere else? Think before you speak.
Dig all the mountains up.
Amazing video! 🤠
me too
i live in Denmark and i have for the last 3 years lived with rerunned shows on my tv,,, and in Denmark each channel is hella expensive, i am going to baaaaan ngc from my need fore knowlegde, because darwin havent obviousley crossed thier mind, if you need new information just say so, but please dont try to surveive on rerunnes, it is imbarrassing. over and out. ngc is OUT. and so is my spelling i know.....,
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It takes one pound of coal to post a comment here !
Curious how you exist in a system you had no choice in joining. Guess that makes all your criticisms invalid!
Also citation needed on that number
@@ericlotze7724 Wow, you have a strange logic, no choice in joining, so critic is invalid .
Befehl is befhel
Miners are the termite of the earth,they dig and make hole to live..with\out thingking the damage they made on mother earth
Greed that kills
So sad 😞
Thanks trump
The history of coal mining in the United States goes back to the 1300s, when the Hopi Indians used coal.
Thanks Indians.
FortuneZero So we can blame the continued destruction of our environment from coal mining on the native Americans right?
Not really, since the Obama administration disowned Indians and gave away the lands to foreign mining companies in 2014 with NDAA.
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China.
There are several more instances.
thinkprogress.org/citing-religious-freedom-native-americans-fight-to-take-back-sacred-land-from-mining-companies-446fb032f611
Yeah the scale is completely comparable with modern mining industry...
Indians were a proud great many people. As many as 120mio before europeans and diseases came, some of which they were not immune of wiped almost 90% of them out. You surely cant say that there wasnt any demand.
You lost me at "spiritual"
She's speaking for the natives that were here before your people came from where ever they came from
@@onenation3784 We came from America, we were here first.
@@roastedskissors2206 Natives were here long before the word "America" existed. And who's "we"
IN general you can just replace spiritual with emotional.
live a wildlife.
She would have more value if she walked and did not drive.
Make America GREAT again by not destroying these mountains and rivers Mr. trump.
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Pov .world about coalmining history and culture of mining towns.
A lot of drama here. B.S.
After jengaburu curse
Oh my god don't make me cry we are KILLING this planet .... make it STOP
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Ya all of this are bad things but you dont have phones and cars right if there is no mining right?
Who else got hear bc of there teacher?
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Those abbandoned mines you can just replant trees and stop complaining. Nature can heal fast
Mate, even if it was just forest, forests take a century or more to develop. It doesn't "heal fast."
@@seigeengine yes and no but it can heal fast mate and my meaning of fast would be how fast can trees grow? Definitely doesnt take centuries for some trees to grow but for sure a few good years, some trees can grow 10 to 30 years even and those abandoned mines would be part of the forest again. These mines need to have programs like afforestration and strict regulations. There's always way for nature to heal fast. Sure it take years and perhaps for some trees it can take centuries but eventually it does as long as we leave it alone after. Implementing rehabilitation after a mine has been exhausted is a must everywhere in the world. We have the capacity to do it, but most times people can ignore it without consequences. You can never stop mining with todays demand and technology needs and greed but we can close the wound and let it heal afterwards.
@@fteambjj First of all, trees take a wide range of times to grow, and picking a tree that's quick just because it's quick is a poor strategy.
Second of all, forests are not just trees. They are complex ecosystems that can take centuries to mature.
Third of all, forests are composed of a wide range of trees and other plants, animals, insects, etc. which are hard to reproduce artificially.
Fourth, none of this restores the mountain you have torn down.
I'm sitting in my car on top of a fly ash site in the middle of a forest that epa x dominion energy turned into a baseball field.
Wondering if I'm getting contaminated and wondering why they made a "park" to be just a baseball field.
Trees literally cannot grow back after the mountaintop has been removed, because it strips away the top soil leaving it bare
Not a dutch version?
Im sorry, Jah is Dead.
all deez boomers commenting lol. i just had to do this for school
Do u know the brits own a majority of thr oil companies in the world, and do u know national geographic is british owned?😁. So much for being honest about the climate, eh?
Didn't know that
Came here b/c im at a park in Virginia literally in my car sitting on top of fly ash site that the epa and dominion energy turned into a base ball field. 😱
And now wondering if some of the local people still got contaminated and what would contaminated from coal and petroleum people look like b/c i wanna find one lol! It's creepy and lonely on this clay capped burnt coal and petroleum site! ☹️
I feel like I'm getting contaminated now! 🥴
What are we doing to our selfs
your name Reechurd
We are making money you brick
No other industry has so much welfare built into it. Hardrock miners do not get the welfare coal miners expect. They kind of sicken me with their self entitlement.
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Who is here after class in Green 🍏💚 Economy
I'm here because my teacher let me watch this
Well you like power don't you...
my teacher gave me this
Same
And when you stop mining the people will have zero jobs because the whole economy is based on mining
What? They'd have to... adapt? NO! Keep everything the same forever!
I hate the nation which is disturbing. nature
Tell that to the chinese, brits...
#NoToMINING
#SaveMotherEarth
i bet your name is monica
@@therealjoshy2169 :/
People need jobs, we cant just preserve mountains only so rich people can have something pretty to look at
FROM 8R LOL
Minong companies should learn how to restore the environment eaither
My mam Told me to see this so I am here
Oh my teacher told me to see this
Driving a car while philosophizing about the pollotion of their environment. Where there is a demand there is always a supply. Dont complain about beeing dameged by the economy while beeing a part....
Judging by your grammar you must not be the sharpest tool in the shed!
Sorry.. English is not my native language.. But thx for your remark.
cff
Go back to no money
coal needs to go away
Not to sound mean or harsh but get over it that is what people do they are destructive and do not care
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I looked with pleasure.
Boohoo go cry
who fucking cares.. it supports thousands job and gives power to millions of people. youll get over it
finally a smart person
There really isn't anything smart about this comment at all. Thousands of jobs is really nothing in a country as big as the US, and coal is an out dated, inefficient, pollutant intensive energy source that only hasn't been replaced already because of lobbying from coal companies. There's no reason to keep using it. The three largest coal consuming countries (with 70% of coal consumption among them) and the US, CHINA, and INDIA. The latter two are still developing and are not any where close to as modern as the US. Do some research and you'll realize just how wrong this perspective is. Coal doesnt make ANY sense at all. Especially for a world super power with the largest GDP.
(PS. I'm not some idiot "use solar panels only" liberal, I'm from a oil family, and my dad worked in a Coal mine to pay for school. I'm just a realist, and these are the facts)
You probably won't, but your children will, and their children, and all of your descendants because they won't breath clean air or drink pure water. The impact on us is why we care.
Luis Martinez ok well better stop driving your car.. and anything else that might pollute our environment then.. don't wanna be a hypocrite do we
Lt. Feltersnach I live my life as environmentally friendly as I can. I live in a small house, use solar panels. I don't actually have a car. I use my bike as often as I can, and sometimes use public transportation. I'm saving for an electric vehicle. Bottom line is. I do what I can.