As renewable energies such as wind power and solar are becoming more and more competitive and as climate gets weirder and warmer, opposition to coal grows fiercer and more global.
Think Progress has a compelling article on how plans to build coal fired plants are thwarted by local grassroots movements which do not want air, water and soil pollution anywhere near their houses.
From China to Australia, and from the United States to Europe, opposition is making it almost impossible in many countries to build these infernal pollution climate change plants.