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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376067.Coal_A_Human_History?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Coal: A Human History" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BEV63PMGL._SL160_.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376067.Coal_A_Human_History?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Coal: A Human History</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/140576.Barbara_Freese">Barbara Freese</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21785455?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>This was assigned reading in a class at school, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It talks about coal's good sides and bad sides. It's easy to hear about coal's bad sides in discussions about global warming, acid rain, or worker's rights, but by providing a fuel alternative to wood, it's saved a lot of forests. It's not all good; it's not all bad, although I would say it does have quite a few negative aspects for the US to use it for 50% of the electric power supply. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1146376?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>