No, because that is controllable while Bitcoin isn't. Meanwhile, Bitcoin's growing very quickly while coal mining plants are boring. See the pattern? The only reason they keep pushing those narratives is that Bitcoin is free.

As far as I know, critical thinking and the "debunking" of various pieces of information is a quite modern thing to do nowadays. They don't seem to care much about debunking this particular piece of information or encourage others to do it.

A Bitcoin mining council is useless and the previous answers are very accurate. You can't enforce something in Bitcoin, because those who don't like the new change will simply move on to another cryptocurrency. It's just a complete waste of resources for something that can easily be changed. The only thing is, if such councils appear then there will be a lot of fuss inside the Bitcoin protocol and community since they'll both be spammed out by both parties - those like me, who care about Bitcoin's decentralization, and those like the council members who only want to censor the blockchain to their own advantage.