Our Future We Build from the Past

I wonder what my miner dad, grandads, and uncles would have said if they could see what was around the corner? Is it progress? Haven't we just shunted the carbon issues across the world to China?
A miner lifts his lamp to see the future. I've extended the motif of the Lepidodendron fossil which formed the coal measures upwards to form the columnar structure of a wind turbine.