The LA Times reports an amazing quote that is all too common from environmentalists. Here it is:

“Growing coal use threatens nothing less than the end of civilization as we know it,” said Henry Henderson, the Chicago-based Midwest director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.”

I’m sorry, there is no reason to believe that burning coal will end civilization as we know it. The worst case scenario is a hotter world with higher seas. That will not end civilization. What will end civilization as we know it is less energy. But that’s what exactly what environmentalists want.