Happy Earth Day! Close Your Local Coal Plant!

(Thanks to Informed Comment by Juan Cole.  Here's a quote from this post for those whose
compu-traptions (i.e., laptops, desktops, tablets, cell phones, etc.) can't do videos :

The single most important thing you can do for the earth is call your utility company and pressure them not to use coal, and lobby your city to develop its own solar installations, and put solar panels on your roof.

Close all the 600 coal plants in the United States and you’d dramatically reduce our 500 billion metric tons a year of CO2 emissions. (The supposed good news that our emissions have fallen from 6 to 5 billion metric tons annually is laughable, since 3, 4, or 5 billion tons a year will still radically alter the earth. We need to get it down to sustainable levels and hydrocarbons like natural gas cannot do that!)

Environmentalists should think strategically. As bad as a tar sands pipeline might be, coal plants are far, far worse. We should put all our eggs in one basket and target coal for extinction within a decade.

The solar industry already employs more workers than are in the coal mines.

Every day a trainload of coal goes through my neighborhood on its way to the power plant that heats the US Capitol bldgs.  Our b'loved Congresscritters like their comforts.