To correct your president, the modern world started before the USA, and before coal. It started with the New World, brutal slavery, gold, and capital. If the US President is talking about the Industrial Revolution, that wasn't coal, either, but technology and steam, specifically the realization that steam transferred energy. Coal was used before that. But, if want wants to be US centric, then let's look at the violence in California and Washington before the US Civil War, and how that racist violence transferred into dehumanizing technological violence, designed to protect White blood. Consider, in this regard, Gabriel Rains, who led the volunteers against the Yakama in 1855, who turned his experience into the invention of the land mine for the Confederate cause, to prevent Southern white blood from being spilled to defend Black people's rights. That's the modern world the president appears to be talking about. It's best not to let him mythologize all this. The record is clear.
every day it's so hard to be as horrified as we should be at every action of this moron and his many enablers and profiteers.
"Clean, beautiful coal," eh?
Start with Centralia, PA.
To correct your president, the modern world started before the USA, and before coal. It started with the New World, brutal slavery, gold, and capital. If the US President is talking about the Industrial Revolution, that wasn't coal, either, but technology and steam, specifically the realization that steam transferred energy. Coal was used before that. But, if want wants to be US centric, then let's look at the violence in California and Washington before the US Civil War, and how that racist violence transferred into dehumanizing technological violence, designed to protect White blood. Consider, in this regard, Gabriel Rains, who led the volunteers against the Yakama in 1855, who turned his experience into the invention of the land mine for the Confederate cause, to prevent Southern white blood from being spilled to defend Black people's rights. That's the modern world the president appears to be talking about. It's best not to let him mythologize all this. The record is clear.