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Coal Is Killing You … Softly (and Slowly) Print E-mail
Written by The Chilling Effect   
Wednesday, 24 September 2008

coal plugSen. Joe Biden flatly stated that coal is killing you, just months after Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it’s making us sick. So what about it? Is coal killing us?

We doubt anyone would suggest huffing coal particulates for kicks and giggles, and if they did, it would be best not to heed their call. But here’s something that Senators Biden and Reid may have missed, probably because they are not on the Senate committee overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services.

Here’s a little factoid: Our life expectancies are at an all-time high. Here’s the recap from the Washington Post in June:

The overall U.S. life expectancy of 78.1 years was up 0.3 years from 2005. Life expectancy for women was 80.7 years, and for men, 75.4 years. The disparity between the sexes — 5.3 years — has been declining since it peaked at about eight years in 1979.

No, coal isn’t going to kill us. But the rhetoric might. (Or, is it the silent, sneaky killer that actually makes us live longer so we won’t figure out that it’s killing us?)

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