this is still happening.
we have posted here about the ungodly destruction of our planet via Mountain Top Removal. today i was prompted by an email to check out this page and reminded of my (wavering) comitment to do what i could to end this practice of coal mining.
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/
with energy prices going up this will be a battle made more fierce in coming years. please see this site and look at ways you might conserve your own energy use. i must confess i feel like it is too big an issue for us to change...
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Thanks for spreading the word about the economic, environmental and human rights disaster we call mountaintop removal, geoff. Your doing great stuff on this blog, whether or not your commitment is "wavering."
I very much differ with your feelings about whether this juggernaut that is consuming our mountains and culture can be stopped, however. As someone who has worked to end mountaintop removal for some time now, I honest-to-God think that we're on the verge of stopping the worst of it (the big ones with valley fills). After major articles in Vanity Fair, Oprah Magazine, National Geographic, and more, all the signs are that the nation is finally beginning to wake up to this disaster.
America is too great and Americans are too good to allow mountaintop removal to continue. Once the cloak of secrecy that has sheltered the coal companies has been lifted, mountaintop removal will end. As such, your efforts are far from futile - in fact it's precisely the democratic power of the internet that is lifting that cloak and you and your blog are a part of it.
So buck up and keep it up and we'll stop this madness forever.
Lazyhorse and JW.
thank you so much for your comments. you have done much to give me hope and i'm renewing my expectation for positive change. thanks to you two and the many others for whom this is a daily challenge. keep up the great, life-giving work...and thanks again for the encouragement.
peace
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