other things? do tell!
It hurts mother Gaia, lifegiver to us all *raises hands up while wearing flowers on his head*.Or if you want the other one. Tons of heavy metals, like Mercury (and especially a lovely form called Methylmercury, which can interferes with the development of central nervous system in fetuses) and dozen other Air Toxins and carcinogenics. (Including, Dioxnies, Arsenic, Beryllium, Manganese, Hydrogen Fluroride)
Various Sulfursomething gasses that go and form Acid rain (no, you might not melt, but it is bad for the crops, plants, lakes and rivers)
Smog & soot with various effects, the least linked to "developed word dieseses" like asthma.
Even the remaining ash itself (125,000 tons from a 500 megawatt station, and 193,000 tons of sludge) is so toxic (and ironically
radioactive) its waste that must be put somewhere, and where it is put you don't want to go anymore.
Thats one of the things that pisses me off a bit with the whole global warming thing. There is so much focus on it that those with a slighty less than optimum attention span among us (eg conservatives) behave as if CO2 is the only pollutant in existance someone is either "pro" or "against" and forget the things that are
really bad. In fact CO2 is not even a pollutant, it might warm the atmosphere up there a bit but as a gas its harmless (its what we put in fizzy drinks as well).
