And daddy won’t you take
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
At 35,000 feet, the effects of strip mining in West Virginia and Kentucky are all too clear. Mountains flattened, land scarred, trails of erosion carrying mud and debris into streams and rivers.
Most people think strip mining is part of the coal industry’s sordid past, but the practice of using giant shovels to carve away entire mountains continues today as demand for