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Coal is the largest source of electricity in the world. Each year we mine enough coal to give over 1 ton of it to every single person on the planet.
Environmentally damaging surface mining methods have overtaken underground mining as the predominant way of extracting coal.
There has been the rise in so-called mountaintop removal mining, where tops of whole mountains are blasted away to get to the coal seams underneath. Several open-pit mine craters are so large that they are visible from outer space.
If nothing changes, we will have increased our coal consumption with over 50 percent by 2030. Most of this enormous increase will be happening in India and China.
Check out Energy & Climate section to explore the damaging effects of turning coal into energy.
About 7.7 billion tons of coal is mined a year.
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