Thats a pretty important point there. Its trendy now to hate on coal but at the same time we gotta be able to respect what you pointed out and how the good came with the bad.
My grandfather used to tell me about that when I was a little boy visiting him here in WV. Now that I’m going through my own father’s stuff after his passing, I’m setting aside all the WV history books and local music CDs to ship back to Japan.