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Diary 10/28/2009 at 11:35 PM EDT

VIDEO: Plundering Appalachia - The Tragedy of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining

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If the big coal companies get their way, eventually the the Appalachians and ultimately the United States, period, will begin to look like the moon, because there are only a finite number of mountains, yet a vast, global addiction to coal. Big coal would have us believe you can restore mountain tops like you grow trees, but what kind of idiots do they take us for, claiming they can restore what it took Mother Nature millions of years to create with a few shovels full of dirt and some shrubbery, so to speak.

To get more involved with stopping this abomination, go to:
http://www.plunderingappalachia.org/

I have also posted this at my new web blog, which you might want to check out, Plutonian Mac, a more cosmic and artistic look at things than you usually get from me at OpEdNews. The same video can be viewed at: http://plutonianmac.blogspot.com/2009/10/plundering-appalachia-tragedy-of.html

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