
Originally Posted by
KerrAvon
@MMM. I'll offer you a variant on the proven liar challenge that reduced your new chum, Monty to a blustering wreck: demonstrate where I have even implied support for brown coal and I will never post again. Fail and all you have to do is aplogise. Deal?
Fracking isn't necessarily a dirty technology and as even the Green Party acknowledges, natural gas electricity generating capacity is required for those days when solar and wind fail to turn up.
No, we didn't have an awareness of climate change back in the 80s. We had acid rain, with the burning of coal in the UK causing widespread damage to forests, lakes and rivers in Scandinavia in particular.
I just find it interesting that you would accept the running down of the mining industry and consequential loss of jobs on environmental grounds, but not on the economic ones cited by Thatcher.