Coal And Oil Saved The Whales

Without coal and oil, whales would have gone extinct 150 years ago.

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4 Feb 1939, Page 6 – at Newspapers.com

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27 Responses to Coal And Oil Saved The Whales

  1. Ah HA! It WAS the capitalists!

  2. gator69 says:

    They also saved our forests, horses, and city streets.

  3. lectrikdog says:

    Unfortunatley, some Whales didn’t make it.

  4. lectrikdog says:

    Coal making during the Carboniferous and Permian depleted atmospheric CO2 to dangerously low levels. Thanks to the development of White Rot Fungi, which could break down lignin and return CO2 to the atmosphere, we are here today to write blog comments about it. 😉

  5. This article makes it sound like petroleum was discovered around 1850. It’s bunk. Petroleum has been known since ancient times. They just never used it for anything, except in the 17th century the French used it to cure melancholy by wiping it on patients’ heads.

  6. sfx2020 says:

    “So what do you do to distract the american public.”
    That’s idiotic. Stop it.

    • Gail Combs says:

      Actually it is a typical weapon used in propaganda and con-gamemanship.

      Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another. Magicians use distraction techniques to draw the audience’s attention away from whichever hand is engaged in sleight of hand. Our leaders are nowhere near as benign.

      H. L. Menchen identified this years ago.

      “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

  7. catweazle666 says:

    Interestingly, around the middle of the 19th century, the shale oil extraction industry mads Scotland the biggest petroleum exporter on Earth.

    http://www.scottishshale.co.uk/HistoryPages/

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