With the demand for US coal falling, and coal companies going bankrupt, now is a great time for the US government to buy the entire coal industry and shut it down.

Oxfam reports that coal is bad for human health as well as the ecosphere's health, and inferior to renewable energy for providing electricity to poor people.

China's coal use peaked in 2014.

The name "Anthropocene" is an ill-advised choice — people's eagerness to use it confirms the argument.