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Over the next 100 years, we’re on track to destroy the mountains of Appalachia. I lived for seven years as a kid in the Bluegrass of Kentucky. This picture is from the mountains east of there (specifically, from Oven Fork, near Whitesburg, KY). I spent enough time in those mountains to fall deeply in love with them. What we’re doing breaks my heart. Once you blow the top off a mountain, dump it in the neighboring streams, and use the coal to light some houses for a year, it’s gone forever—a gift from God destroyed and thrown away.
[photo credit: www.mountainroadshow.com]