As to the ad itself, it's very vague.  Without the identifier at the end, I wouldn't haven known whether the point was that if we're going to use coal at all we need it to stop emitting CO2, or that we need coal.  Not a very good piece of propaganda.

America had all those things before coal. America will have all those things after coal.

Ped Shed Blog

I used the day's sunny weather to bike the two miles to the grocery and I'm ignoring the fact that I had an electric assist back up the hill when I said I deserved a hot tub. Since everybody works four-day weeks to save gas and jobs are mostly full-time (same reason) I had my  Friday to clean up the greenhouse, harvest a salad and plant some pea starts.

Beef is a little pricey but there's usually a neighbor that has rabbit, goat or chicken in the freezer they're willing to haggle for. I trade for homemade pickles and salsa since I don't mind canning. The free-range diet, biking and gardening has eliminated the spare tire also.

Yeah, life without coal would suck. Sure it would.

Put the Carbon Back

1. People do nothing, climate change destroys the American way of life.

2. People sacrifice the American way of life to stop climate change, people survive but live differently.

3. People manage to stop climate change without sacrificing the American way of life.