Ultimately it is good news, although the number of agendas present when reporting energy news is amazing sometimes.<p>It would be interesting to find alternative uses for coal that weren&#x27;t polluting. A more enlightened civilization might use the revenue from that alternate use to fund re-education and social support for people too old to learn new skills other than coal production. In that way you could humanely &quot;close out&quot; the era of coal use on the people whose lives were intimately tied to its existence.