Thirty-five years of destoying mountains has to destroy culture as well. (click title to entry for film loop - thank you)

(To Left) the densely forested slopes of the Appalachian Mountains in southern West Virginia is a layer cake of thin coal seams.

April 8, 2010

"Coal Controversy in Appalachia"  (click here)

Hobet Mine in West Virginia on September 17, 1984.  This 1984 picture shows rivers and streams that still had clear, beautiful water with abundant wildlife.  The mining companies have destroyed any beauty of these areas while destroying the tourism possible.  The polluted waters have added dangers to the citizens of the area while contaminating their soil and water.

WHEN IS ENOUGH finally ENOUGH?

The rolling, stream-creased mountains of the central and southern Appalachian Mountains are blanketed by forests that have some of the highest biodiversity outside the tropics. Hundreds of thousands of acres of these forests have been lost or degraded by mountaintop removal mining. Not long after this photo of the mountains north of the Mud River in Boone County was taken in July 2005, an expansion of the Hobet-21 mine cleared and leveled large areas in the foreground and middle-ground of the photograph. (Photo ©2005 Vivian Stockman)

When one contemplates why the Climate Crisis exists; consider the loss of the beauty of the Appalachians and their carbon sinks.