I gazed out my window upon what was once my refuge from the world, my sanctuary, my mountain. A mountain it is no longer... no, now it is comparable to the most desolate and alien of planets in our small section of the universe. They stripped away the layers of my land in order to burn the ancient coal within. Imagine if you had a natural sanctuary, a place of profound and magnificent beauty so spectacular that all who happened to know of it thought of it as a little piece of their heaven. Now, imagine that one day you went to visit your refuge only to find the government had leased the land to an out of state coal company. A company that did not see your heaven for what it was. A company whose sole purpose was profiteering from the absolute destruction of the ecosystem in order to provide an outdated fuel to outdated power supply companies.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Mountaintop Removal
I gazed out my window upon what was once my refuge from the world, my sanctuary, my mountain. A mountain it is no longer... no, now it is comparable to the most desolate and alien of planets in our small section of the universe. They stripped away the layers of my land in order to burn the ancient coal within. Imagine if you had a natural sanctuary, a place of profound and magnificent beauty so spectacular that all who happened to know of it thought of it as a little piece of their heaven. Now, imagine that one day you went to visit your refuge only to find the government had leased the land to an out of state coal company. A company that did not see your heaven for what it was. A company whose sole purpose was profiteering from the absolute destruction of the ecosystem in order to provide an outdated fuel to outdated power supply companies.
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