I have seen many reports linking autism to mercury in the environment. All that the big media ever says is "it comes from fish". Fish don't naturally have so much methylmercury in them. A better answer might be "It comes from your electrical outlets"

Some 36 percent of mercury emissions in the U.S. stem from the coal-fired power plants which generate half of the electricity that we use, and too often waste and take for granted.

That's just U.S. coal-fired plants, which burn 900 million tons of coal per year and are very clean compared to Chinese plants. China plans to open the equivalent of one coal-fired power plant every week for the next seven years. Chinese coal also tends to have more mercury than American coal.

I am in college, in residence halls where at least twice as much electricity is wasted as is used for performing any kind of task (whether it be watching TV or powering a hair dryer). I tell people to stop wasting electricity and they say "We don't pay no electric bill!"

The emissions from power stations are part of the "global electric bill" that we ALL are paying way too much for, and we will one day pay dearly for depending upon the outcomes of climate change.

We all pay the global electric bill, whether it means fighting wars to protect our access to gas and oil in the Middle East, Venzuela, etc., splitting atoms and making nuclear waste, or burning coal and throwing out ton after ton of toxic chemicals and carbon dioxide into the environment where we all live.