stackyFACTSLong before modern climate activism, authorities realized that burning certain types of coal made the air completely unbreathable. Early environmental regulations strictly criminalized the use of sea-coal to abate the choking smoke, though everyone just ignored the laws because freezing was infinitely worse than coughing.
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