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"Since the advent of the industrial age, the atmospheric burden of mercury in our environment— meaning the amount falling from the sky from waste from coal combustion, incineration, mining, coal-fired utilities, and industrial boilers—has tripled. In the United States, coal-fired power plants alone spew about fifty tons of mercury into the air each year." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Therefore no abatement procedures necessary for sulfur and nitrogen; coal has higher content of ash with no value, biomass ash content is lower and has value as fertilizer; coal conversion mobilizes toxic trace metals and coal tars are highly carcinogenic; coal mining is destructive while biomass production improves land; coal production increases CO2 in atmosphere, biomass does not. Economic—small scale use of biomass results in lower shipping costs and less difficult conversion; centralized large scale use of coal is required to offset the high cost of environmental control." - Ed Rosenthal, Hemp Today (Get the book.)

"Peabody coal Company is strip-mining the sacred mesas for coal deposits and selling the coal to several large power plants. The coal is transported through pipes to power plants in Las Vegas and Los Angeles; 2,700 gallons per minute of water from the unrechargeable water table is pumped out to push the coal through the pipes. Native Indians, depending on the moisture level in the desert for their survival, are facing a severe agricultural and ecological crisis. Hopi elders report that the corn has grown considerably smaller this past season." - Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss, The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age (Get the book.)

"Some ingredients that may be found in vaccines are:20 Phenol (carbolic acid), distilled from coal or coal tar. Formaldehyde, a known cancer causing agent, which is commonly used to embalm corpses. þMercury (thimerosal), a toxic heavy metal and a neurological poison, which accumulates in the brain. Alum, a preservative. Aluminum phosphate, a toxin used in deodorants. Aluminum is a neurological poison that accumulates in the brain. þAcetone, a solvent used in fingernail polish remover; very volatile, passes easily through the placenta." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The still, cold air trapped ascending coal smoke, causing serious air pollution. The "fuliginous steame of the Sea Coal" prevented one from seeing across the street and filled Londoners' lungs with "grosse particles." Evelyn heard stories of extremely cold weather as far south as Spain "& the most southern tracts."7 As Londoners partied, the Scots suffered grievously. Up to one-third of the upland population died between 1693 and 1700, during the years immediately preceding the union with England in 1707. The harsh climate may have helped make union inevitable." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"One way is to remove the offending compounds from high-sulfur coal before the coal is burned. We already possess the technology to produce cleaner-burning coal, although such coal is somewhat more expensive. The other alternative is to switch to low-sulfur coals entirely. Certainly, attempts to achieve greater energy efficiency and to seek cleaner sources of energy such as solar power would also have a positive impact. As a society, we must decide whether the benefits to our health and our planet outweigh the economic costs of making these changes. NOTES 1. Cronan, C. S., and C. L Schofield." - Alan Gaby, Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis: What You Can Do About Bone Loss (Get the book.)

"Peabody coal Company is strip-mining the sacred mesas for coal deposits and selling the coal to several large power plants. The coal is transported through pipes to power plants in Las Vegas and Los Angeles; 2,700 gallons per minute of water from the unrechargeable water table is pumped out to push the coal through the pipes. Native Indians, depending on the moisture level in the desert for their survival, are facing a severe agricultural and ecological crisis. Hopi elders report that the corn has grown considerably smaller this past season." - Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss, The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age (Get the book.)

"The mined coal was placed in baskets, pulled to the top by ropes. On the other side of the world, in Britain, the Romans extracted coal from a.d. 100 onward, although no actual mine sites have been found so far. The coal was used as fuel for hypocaust systems (see Central Heating in House and Home) and in smithies and workshops. Large amounts were supplied to the army, and tons of coal have been found in forts on Hadrian's Wall, abandoned around a.d. 400 when the Roman legions left Britain. At Housesteads fort the guardhouse had even been converted into a coalshed around a.d. 300." - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.)

"One way is to remove the offending compounds from high-sulfur coal before the coal is burned. We already possess the technology to produce cleaner-burning coal, although such coal is somewhat more expensive. The other alternative is to switch to low-sulfur coals entirely. Certainly, attempts to achieve greater energy efficiency and to seek cleaner sources of energy such as solar power would also have a positive impact. As a society, we must decide whether the benefits to our health and our planet outweigh the economic costs of making these changes. NOTES 1. Cronan, C. S., and C. L Schofield." - Alan Gaby, Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis: What You Can Do About Bone Loss (Get the book.)

"Enormous supplies of by-product sulfur from coal and coke processing also became available in both Europe and America as industrialization expanded and as coal and coke replaced wood as the major source of industrial heat. From the 1840s through the 1860s, magazines like Country Gentleman and Practical Farmer promoted the virtues of these mined and processed fertilizers. So did Scientific American, as seen in the following puffed-up editorial for superphosphate: Sulphuric acid, invaluable for many purposes, is coming into common use among the English farmers. . . ." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"When heated in the absence of air, coal is converted into coal gas and coal tar, which is a viscous black liquid. Ninety-five percent of synthetic colorings used in the U.S. are coal-tar derivatives. Red dye number 2 is the most infamous of these. But none of them should be used. Their health risks are beyond dispute. By the way, I would also stay away from other dyes, such as hair dyes. Two thirds of the food additives used in the United States are synthetic flavorings. Do we need them?" - Gary Null, Gary Null's Power Aging (Get the book.)

"Certain fungi, in particular '"white rot" fungi, can degrade insecticides, herbicides, pentachlorophenol, creosote, coal tars, and heavy fuels and turn them into carbon dioxide, water, and basic elements. Fungi occur in every environment on Earth and play very important roles in most ecosystems, including the internal ecosystem of the body. Along with bacteria, fungi are the major decomposers in most terrestrial and some aquatic ecosystems." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Fossil fuels such as coal may contain as much as 1 ppm of mercury. It has been estimated that as much as 5,000 tons of mercury are released into the atmosphere every year from burning coal and natural gas and refining petroleum products. A very dense element with many unusual physical properties, mercury is the only common metal that exists as a liquid at ordinary temperatures. Due to its high surface tension, it beads easily when spilled and its high density led to its use in barometers." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"L LLLLikzL Oil Heart Disease The coal of my study was to use a combination of nutrition and cholesterol-reducing drugs to get the cholesterol levels of each and every one of my patients below 150 mg/dL and then to see what effect that reduction would have on their coronary artery disease. I chose that particular target threshold for a number of reasons. For one, there was the clarion example of those parts of the world where cardiovascular disease is nearly nonexistent: in those areas, cholesterol levels are consistently below 150 mg/dL." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Coal mining began in 1906 when John Monroe Longyear, an American, formed the Arctic coal Company on the island, and within a decade there were six coal mines in the area. The miners and their families lived in the newly built town of Longyearbyen. The town also drew seasonal workers, men who were farmers or fishermen in Norway, who spent the cold winter months in Longyearbyen mining coal. Duncan took a guess: influenza had devastated Norway. Norwegians had traveled to Spitsbergen for mining work. The flu might have come to Spitsbergen." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"Vitamin E can become a 'hot coal,' so to speak, potentially damaging other molecules unless it is brought back to a stable condition by a further partner in a chain which eventually terminates the process," says Stocker. Such partners are CoQIO and vitamin C. They protect vitamin E and together make a powerful antioxidant front against CVD. In an experiment done with mice, it was shown that the combination of CoQIO and vitamin E lowered oxidative stress in arterial walls, creating a more endothelial-friendly environment that decreased the CRP level and increased protection against inflammation." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"That Christmas, the British cartoonist Osbert Lancaster penned a memorable cartoon of a poor man gathering wood under a full moon with a variation on the carol "Good King Wenceslas," lampooning the bureaucracy responsible for coal rationing: Brightly shone the moon that night, 'tho the frost was cruel. Extra brightly so's to spite the Minister of Fuel? The 1950s were somewhat kinder, but the 1960s brought the coldest winters to Britain since the 1880s." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"When heated in the absence of air, coal is converted into coal gas and coal tar, which is a viscous black liquid. Ninety-five percent of synthetic colorings used in the U.S. are coal-tar derivatives. Red dye number 2 is the most infamous of these. But none of them should be used. Their health risks are beyond dispute. By the way, I would also stay away from other dyes, such as hair dyes. Two thirds of the food additives used in the United States are synthetic flavorings. Do we need them?" - Gary Null, Gary Null's Power Aging (Get the book.)

"For other "coal tar" dyes, the manual relies on the Hair Dye Exemption clause of the FD&C Act, which allows these dyes' use provided there is a trivializing warning to the effect that these dyes may "cause skin irritation in certain individuals." Most major industrialized nations now require ingredient labeling, even though this is minimally, if at all, informative in the absence of appropriate warnings." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Amazingly, they developed the technology to make color out of the mountains of coal tar left over from the production of steel. They turned worthless coal tar into gold, and the highly profitable German chemical industry was born. By the turn of the century the German chemical industry had grown to a position of world dominance. The three main companies that competed in the chemical industry were Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF. Competition among these companies was cut-throat." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The Versailles conferees' combination of idealistic hopes and pragmatic realpolitik led, in the end, to an even more brutal convulsion, after which six nations of Europe—France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands—met in 1951 to form the clumsily named European coal and Steel Community, the precursor to what would one day be envisioned as a United States of Europe." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In the course of the twentieth century technological innovations shifted industrial production from coal and steam, textiles, machine tools, glass, pre-Bessemer forged steel, and labor-intensive agriculture, to electricity, the internal combustion engine, organic chemistry, and large-scale manufacturing that was soon to grow beyond the borders of national states. The shift was intensified when in the latter part of the century the second industrial revolution replaced reliance on massive energy and raw material inputs with the intangible resource known as information." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Since the middle of the nineteenth century oxygen has decreased mainly due to the burning of coal; it now dips to 19 percent of total volume over impacted areas and to 12 to 17 percent over major cities. At 6 or 7 percent of total volume, life can no longer be sustained. At the same time the share of greenhouse gases is growing. Two hundred years of burning fossil fuels and cutting down large tracts of forest has increased the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content from about 280 parts per million to over 350 parts per million." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "By the twentieth century, driven by newly discovered sources of energy, first steam and then coal, oil, and natural gas, and impelled by other technologies for processing, storing, and transmitting information, the rate of societal evolution became vertiginous. It is difficult to see how humans, with a physiology governed by a brain and nervous system that evolved a hundred thousand or more years in the past, could keep pace with a continuation of this trend. Furthering it, even in the modest sense of making it relatively smooth, is likely to be at best a temporary measure." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

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