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Why did people start burning coal?

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Coal is an abundant and cheap form of fuel. When people first stared burning it no one was concerned about air pollution, because it seemed at the time that human beings could never create so much smoke that it would not be able to simply dissipate into the vast atmosphere of the planet.

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