Right on time, I was starting to feel slightly optimistic about life.

"Clean coal, meaning they're taking out coal, they're gonna clean it" lmao

As a Pittsburgh native, coal absolutely destroyed the city and the health of the people who lived here. We still have terrible air pollution, but it’s nothing compared to sky blackening clouds of coal pollution that turned the skyscrapers black.

"Clean Coal" was picked as a slogan because "Watching-Your-Kids-Choke-To-Death-On-Sulfur-Fumes-While-Destroying-The-Planet Coal" didn't roll off the tongue in quite the same way.

I love a good dose of sobering existential despair with my comedy.

Fun fact, here in Appalachia miners got tired of being exploited and tried to unionize. The mining companies hired thugs to bully them into submission. The army eventually got involved to break it up and start straight up shooting miners. The army even dropped literal bombs on coal miners to break up the strike. Today, most of that has been swept under the rug and Appalachian communities are still the poorest in the nation, despite decades of sacrifice. My grandpa gave his literal life to coal mining, got black lung, which turned into leukemia and took him.

glencore literally sounds like one of those comically evil coperations that the main character has to fight at the end of the movie

What I got from this video: -We're fucked. -We're so fucked.

As an Australian, thank you so much for including all of our struggles when it comes to coal! I live in a town where just about every man is either in the agricultural or mining industry, so everyone turns a blind eye/ flat out refutes climate change. One important thing to note, however, is that the mines are all in the literal middle of nowhere, and with our population almost all living on the coast, miners have to drive 10+ hours or fly to get to their work. That’s why I’ve always been fascinated by the ‘mum and pop’ business model coal propaganda has you believe- the small communities they base themselves in are often halfway across the country from the actual mines.

I live in Kentucky, and the funny thing about the "friends of coal" plates is that a lot of people just buy them because they're the only black license plates on offer. Very often you see the "friends of coal" and "coal keeps the light on" logos covered up with stickers of the vehicle owner's own personal flavor.

I like that instead of trying to hide any greenscreen outline you've turned it into a style choice. A nice touch.

This is the kind of video I expected to watch while I was still in school. Perfect and clear presentation, interesting topic, godly amount of research, and the jokes.

Ordinary things is one of those "Internet Historian Tier" Youtubers, He doesn't make videos that often but when he does you can see why they took so long to make.

My first reaction to a new OrdinaryThings video is always: 'Oh neat, time to learn something!' And it always ends in an existential crisis

I know these videos take a long time to make because you put in so much effort but they are always so good I wish they came out weekly!

This guy actually touches german hypocrisy, I love it

"There's a reason that 'power' and 'energy' basically mean the same thing." Absolute banger of a line.

Always a pleasure to watch Stede Bonnet's new videos! That turn away from the pirate's career did you a lot of good.

The fact that you used Crash Bandicoot music when introducing Australia is perfect. Might as well be the outback anthem

I love how you provide your sources as you go. Glad to know these videos are well researched.