Coal industry polarising many Australians

Coal - villain or otherwise?

The maintenance of Australia’s coal industry is polarising many Australians.

Some, primarily those who profit from it, want us to keep digging and exporting the coal they see as beneficial to humanity, while others object to the mining of the fossil fuel for they see it as the arch-villain in the world’s wrestle with carbon-dioxide emissions.

Australia’s Climate Commission has recommended that 80 per cent of the world’s fossil fuels need to remain where they are, in the ground, while the Federal Government has rejected those calls to wind down the coal industry.

The conversation is outlined in an ABC story headlined: “Government says coal industry vital despite Climate Commission's warnings against fossil fuels”.