After some thinking and some provoking and Blues last post - this blogger has declared outright war on the coal industry. If you bring hostility to this blog, be prepared to meet the same. I was naive in thinking we could talk about this like grownups. This is a war and the time for talking has long since gone. The more we talk, the more we lose.
The coal industry is blowing up our mountains, polluting our water, destroying our houses, burying our streams, burying and disturbing our ancestors, treating residents as expendable, intimidating residents into submission, running residents off their land, putting our children in harms way - taking everything from us and giving nothing back. It is time we take it back. The coal industry is yet to see the hell I can raise and I can tell you this - I’m just getting started.
When I started this blog, it’s basic purpose was as an educational tool. Now it has evolved into a weapon. I can’t speak for the other authors, but this blogger intends to use the full arsenal on the coal industry. That goes for the political arm of the coal industry as well, all the way to the White House. Our *illustrious President has said that mountaintop removal coal mining is an acceptable sacrifice for our national security. It may be to him and to the people that enjoy shoveling that pile of crap, but when you are in the war zone and considered a part of the acceptable sacrifice, your attitude quickly changes. We will not be sacrificed and neither will our land.
To the coal industry - did you honestly think you could keep walking on us without a word or any repercussions? Now who is the naive one? As far as myself being an environmental extremist - you will wish that is all that I am. If you really and truly want to know what I am - think along the lines of your worst nightmare.
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* denotes extreme sarcasm
I thought you were fighting a battle long before the blog moved here, heh:) I thought that was the point, even if it was just information. And no I don’t beleive there is any calm debates to be had about this subject, I have tried various places and it just seems that both sides get hostile when discussing this subject.
denny…. this kind of goes along the lines of wendell berry’s speech at the Ilovemountains Day in Frankfort, KY this year. he said it’s time to start taking action. you can listen to it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfMu2NxtZI
very powerful!!
I am digging it.
fierce love.
it’s all some have left. i am lucky, i don’t live in coal fields. the attacks on my mountains have been much more subtle and infiltrative.
i wondered aloud the other day whether MTR was worse then the inexorable development and suburbanization that is the problem in my mountains, but we are lucky that there is so much national forest and park there that there are boundaries to greed.
i realize we had nothing to complain about. when your well is ruined, your children have moved away because there are no jobs, the forest substrate which will sustain us in the end is being obliviated into bare poisonous rocks that ruin the streams that bring fish and water gardens, then you have reasons to complain.
this game is real. internalizing this anger is bad for people, but it is righteous to be angry. let it out.