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>"conventional" power generation kills far more people than nuclear ever has.

and don't start on how many people cholesterol in burgers is killing

Do burgers kill a lot of vegans? Because coal kills a lot of people who aren't coal miners.

yes, they take society resources that could be spent otherwise on other issues, including whatever issues kill vegans

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Coal does the same thing, but also directly harms innocent bystanders. Burgers harm meat eaters directly and vegans indirectly. Coal harms both, both ways.

Do you even support coal? Your other comments on this thread suggest otherwise.

i just got tired of these trollish arguments like number of terrorist deaths vs. car deaths or nuclear deaths vs. coal - it is such a narrow and artificial dimension of comparing apples and oranges, and with that heavily depending on how numbers are calculated (for example, whether Iraq war deaths are added to the number of 9/11 victims or not we'll have either 3K or 103K victims)

The death toll from coal isn't a "trollish argument"; it's a simple fact. People ignore it, because coal kills people over a much longer period of time.

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