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Texas burns more coal than any other state and has hundreds of premature deaths a year caused by its coal plants.

Europe burns 10x what Texas does. Is this how we think?

Europe? The entire continent? The continent that includes large swaths of Russia?

I give up, I don't even know what you're trying to imply here. That somehow Texas (a state, in a country, in a continent) burns less coal than an entire continent? And...?

Maybe think about this for a bit

Coal mines are often associated with massive slag heaps and they can be over 200m in height.

They are not pretty but what they lack in beauty they make up for with danger to the local community from leached chemicals, underground fires and landslides.

I prefer to live near wind turbines myself.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Power_Station#J.K._S... - chimneys are 218m tall.