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Watch, read, or listen to Coal Country, and learn about the destruction to the environment and human health that comes with coal mining. It's happening on a large scale, and for the good of the country, needs to be stopped. Activists around the country are working to do just that, including musicians on the Coal Country CD. This essay is part of a series leading up to the premiere of Coal Country, written by the unmistakable Woody Harrelson:
Mountaintop removal is the most devastating peacetime activity in human history—in fact, if the destruction to our nation's natural and cultural heritage were being perpetrated by a foreign power, it would be considered an act of war—because in a very real sense, it is—it is a war against the Earth. Every week, mountaintop removal coal-mining detonates more explosive force on the land and the communities of Appalachia than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; to extract the coal that is warming the planet and poisoning the water, air and land.
The artists on this musical compilation are dedicated, as I am, to ending this unsustainable, and ultimately suicidal practice and to promoting renewable energy alternatives and the green jobs they will create. Won't you please join them.
Thank you.
For the Earth and her children,
Woody Harrelson
This essay is excerpted from the Coal Country book.
Related Posts:
Coal Country Essays
Find Out Your Connection to Mountaintop Removal
Focus on Focus Earth: Coal's Hard Truth
Ten Dirty Things About Big King Coal
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Where the Coal Is Coming From
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