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Let's be honest. If a terrorist organization had poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 of our citizens, we would immediately shut down the water supply, scramble the national guard, station sharp shooters at every reservoir, scramble the Military Airlift Command and a couple of Carrier Battle Groups, and some unfortunate middle-eastern country would be looking at a 6-digit body count. For good measure, we'd also suspend every civil liberty and wiretap every phone in the known universe. But, since that EXACT event was caused by a Red-Blooded American corporation in a "Coal State", well.."What the heck! Kids like their water to taste like black jelly beans, don't they??" Drink up!
Comments (5)
wysiwig
Excellent point. Maybe they should incorporate here. They would probably do less damage than our own local corporate terrorists.
Richardphotos
often there tends to be false sense of values. a smelter company here poisoned the ground with lead for decades causing many children to die from cancer/lead poisoning. it nearly took an act of the US gov to shut them down and almost as long to remove the soil and replace with other soil not contaminated
62guy
Multinational corporations are the real rulers, that and the various government's bureaucrats.
ArtistKimberly
Delightfully Wonderful Work,
Tommy3D
I agree. My only concern is all the jobs lost. The workers who mine coal, at the risk of their lives, are some of poorest folks in the country. Who is going to help them? But we do have to stop coal mining. Never is an easy answer.
intro
Coal, like oil, has its days numbered. But for now, I just want to see energy done safely. These guys call Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth enviro-terrorists; yet neither of those groups ever un-caringly poisoned the water of 300,000 citizens. If they had, they'd be subjects of a federal manhunt. Another possibility is to find other uses/by-products for coal. (think: carbon-fiber)