massive amounts of environmental degradation and new pollution
It's always funny when people who have never cared about emissions released when burning coal, mining coal, burning petroleum, refining petroleum, drilling for oil, fracking for natural gas, mining for the materials needed to build coal power stations, mining for the materials needed to build oil wells, building the refineries, the electricity to run the refineries, the ocean tankers needed to ship these fossil fuels around the world, the mining for the materials needed to build those ocean tankers.... all of a sudden decide to pretend to give a shit about the environment.