re: When did Joe Scarborough become an enviromentalist?

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There's no such thing as clean burning coal plants. And progressives aren't fixating on coal plants in particular, they want clean electricity generated by any possible means. It's the coal industry and populist right-wingers like Trump who are focusing on coal.

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It's all relative when defining clean burning coal. If one were to compare coal plants that were operating 30-40 yrs ago to today's coal fired plants one would find today's coal plants put out significantly less pollution.

Environmentally friendly energy sources will eventually replace fossil/carbon based and nuclear fission sources but until the price point of alternative energy drops low enough to make nuclear and coal fired plants obsolete we have no choice but to use these fossil/carbon and nuclear based sources so energy can remain affordable for society. It's called living in reality. Here's hoping alternative energy sources replace fossil/carbon and nuclear fission sooner rather than later.