Seriously people in SW VA and WVA, you all scream about how much you love coal jobs, coal money, and coal miners but what has a century of coal mining brought you all but pain, cancer, and respiratory disease? It's time to get out of coal before mining ruins everything from our streams and rivers to our lungs.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Tree hugging scientists want to put people in SW VA and WVA out of jobs
If only the EPA and the rest of the government would listen to science instead of coal company bosses for a change. Maybe our mountains would stay looking like this:
Seriously people in SW VA and WVA, you all scream about how much you love coal jobs, coal money, and coal miners but what has a century of coal mining brought you all but pain, cancer, and respiratory disease? It's time to get out of coal before mining ruins everything from our streams and rivers to our lungs.
Seriously people in SW VA and WVA, you all scream about how much you love coal jobs, coal money, and coal miners but what has a century of coal mining brought you all but pain, cancer, and respiratory disease? It's time to get out of coal before mining ruins everything from our streams and rivers to our lungs.
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I've read a few things on coal mining, and they always make me feel sick to my stomach—and I don't even work in the mines!
(Happy New Year, Monkey!)
People will always be more afraid of money being taken out of their pocket than they are of health or environmental hazards.All sorts of people do jobs that are dangerous and otherwise hazardous to their health and/or well-being because they need to make money. History has proven that when a coal mine closes; coal miners do not get retrained for a new career; no new industry moves in to take over; everyone is just forever unemployed/on welfare, young people leave, families and lives are ruined, the town dies. Weigh this against soem polluted streams, rivers or even lungs and it's no contest. I DO know where you're coming from, but I can also see the coal people's point of view
I love that you follow this topic so ardently. I just happened upon an hour special yesterday called Coal Country that focused on the science and lambasted the industry.
Point they made: Mountain top removal mining could never make it in the Rockies; the industry needs the poor to corner them into raping their natural resources.
I saw Coal Country recently at our local university Ricky. It was sponsored by an environmental group on campus. In attendance were three coal company goons who were taking photos of people in the crowd with their camera phones. It was surreal.
They could provide a lot of jobs building windmills on the mountains that already have been ruined.
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