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Senapathy Junior Artist Username: Senapathy Post Number: 566 Registered: 01-2009 Posted From: 137.131.212.40 Rating: N/A |
See the movie October Sky  | ||
Guttonkay Side Hero Username: Guttonkay Post Number: 3558 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 148.87.67.137 Rating: |
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/0 4/07/us/07westvirginia.html I grew up in a small Pennsylvania coal town, and if everyone spent some time in such a town they might stop all this nonsense about "clean coal" being a part of our energy future. I read just the other day that the incidence of black lung and other horrible health problems are growing among coal miners. That's not what I would call "clean." I remember seeing the miners walking home all stooped over with their faces blackened by coal dust. I remember the poverty of coal miners' families. I remember the funerals of men who died prematurely because of what they had to do to feed their loved ones. If anyone studied the demographics of people in "coal country" they would find an unusually large number of young widows and orphans. |
