[Pen-l] Burning the Future

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

While watching "<http://www.burningthefuture.org/>Burning the 
Future", the powerful new documentary on the environmental impact of 
strip mining (more accurately referred to as "mountaintop removal"), 
I could not help but think of rape. As you watch the profit-mad coal 
companies turn a prone and helpless West Virginia into a victim, your 
soul cries out for justice. Unfortunately, unlike sex crimes, turning 
coal into electricity?no matter the environmental and human 
costs?becomes a civic duty during an era of growing energy 
insecurity. When Bill Raney, a sleazy coal industry spokesman with 
dyed hair and mustache, appears throughout the film to defend 
mountaintop removal, you cannot help but notice the little placard on 
his bookshelf that says: "Bush Loves Coal".

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/burning-the-future/ 

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