Letters: More coal is the wrong answer

Climate change is real; just do a search and see how fast the ice pack is melting. President Obama managed to get 200 countries to sign onto an agreement to combat climate change, but President Trump says we need to get our coal miners back to work.

Using coal miners as an excuse to use more coal is a cover for big-business profits.

I came from Pennsylvania, where coal was big business. There is a town there named Centralia where a coal mine has been burning since 1962, and nobody can live there because of the carbon monoxide being released; it could burn for another century.

Go talk to the actual miners. They will tell you about the unsafe working conditions, inadequate health-care benefits, black lung disease, cave-ins.

There are clean-air alternatives to coal. I know people have to work, but it needs to be in safe conditions.