Reply #40: lanparty........

[kispoko]

even the cleanest of coal, is still some of the dirtiest shit you'll ever find on earth.....

and that still doesn't address the manner in which they go about getting it, which itself is filthy, in myriad ways.....


you're right though, if anything, mountaintop removal, as other technological advances have done in that industry, just cuts jobs in mining..... but in this orwellian society we live in, people have been convinced of the opposite. war is peace, ceding liberties is freedom, and threatening mountaintop mining is threatening miners' jobs. there's actually a commercial shown in-state to that effect. and people don't seem to realize what tremendous bullshit goes into that......


but it's hardly a state phenomenon, the american people by and large have been convinced that protecting corporate interests is *their* interest, and fucking with profits is anti-business, and poisonous to the job market and the economy overall.


the biggest thing perhaps, is that as long as we're continuing to find ways of bettering antiquated technology (which i consider the burning of coal, and basically fossil fuels in general), we'll only continue to be reliant on them, instead of beginning the process of converting to alternative energy sources, which we should've been doing a long time ago. in the meanwhile, i'm certainly all for the betterment of the current system (e.g. "clean coal" technology(ies)), but let's not allow that to cloud the horizon for us so we become complacent, to fill the wishes of industry, who will leave us high and dry when their stash of coal is gone.