Sunday, August 26, 2007

Blowing Your Top

A colleague told me about this mountain blasting stuff, which is taking place in West Virginia, Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee. As our country's endless appetite for energy continues to grow, there appears to be no boundary to what companies will do to extract cheap coal. Beautiful mountainous regions are now being turned into scarred wastelands. Everybody is out to screw America the Beautiful to make a quick buck.

My first reaction to watching the video was, "How could we as a country have allowed ourselves to sink so low?" We are destroying our own land -- the beautiful forests and mountains that provide peace to our hearts and eco-tourism dollars for local communities. Yet, the big coal companies ruthlessly destroy with the help and support of their bought out puppets in Washington.

I wonder why more people aren't alarmed. The big thing now is these mega-churches that are popping up all over the place. Maybe a pastor of one of these religious entertainment centers should say, "Hey, did you know they are blasting the tops off mountains in the Cumberland Mountains?" First of all, they would never do it because they would be viewed as coalescing with those "liberal" tree-huggers. Second of all, the mega-church pastors would NEVER say anything that might piss someone off. It's better to give those "God wants you to be rich" sermons than to actually talk about a serious environmental problem. Gosh knows, we don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable. And we CERTAINLY don't want to ask people to do anything, other than to support the religious social club. My gosh, that's already enough pressure -- don't add any more stress to those poor sheep.

And meanwhile, people in Appalachia are seeing their communities destroyed by the classic earth destroyers. A lot of people don't care about the scars to the landscape and the violent destruction. But a few people do care. A few people actually love the land -- even politically conservative people. Yes, I know, simply amazing but true.

I will do what I can to help the people of Appalachia save their beautiful countryside. I encourage others to do the same. Please visit a great website: ILoveMountains.org
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