Memo To Hillary Clinton: There's No "Undo" Command For Mountain Top Removal
Hillary Clinton talks about coal on a West Virginia Public Radio interview yesterday. I wish I were making this up:
You know, maybe there is a way to recover those mountaintops once they have been stripped of the coal. You know, I think we’ve got to look at this from a practical perspective.
The underlying attitude here is deeply disturbing. Either she really believes that you really can "undo" environmental destruction (essentially thinking you can uncrack an egg by wishing it so), or she knows it's a disaster and she doesn't care.
Either way, this interview should be considered her coming out party as an adversary of the green economy. What she's really saying is that we're going to keep destroying land and destroying communities, using the false threat of losing jobs to justify corporate handouts, rather than ending these practices and creating millions of new jobs by building a clean energy economy.
Even Obama, who comes from a coal producing state, has made it clear that if we are going to use coal, we need to stop blowing the tops off of mountains to get it.
And speaking of Obama, isn't there an election coming up in Pennsylvania? I'm wondering if the people living here:
are keen to go the way of West Virginia.
