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Slide 12

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]