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Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining

Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining

Tompkins, Doug
Butler, Tom

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental Studies

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1601090501
ISBN13: 9781601090508
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.99
Height: 0.90 Width: 10.60 Depth: 12.40
Language: English
The Appalachian mountain range is the oldest in the world and it's disappearing one mountain top at a time. Plundering Appalachia takes a bold look at the out-of-control strip mining in the American heartland and its threat to our environment.

The Appalachians are the oldest mountains in the world, and they are literally disappearing. The term mountaintop removal mining, coined to describe the coal-mining process currently at work in much of Appalachia, is in reality, exactly what the name suggests: a mountain, formed over millions of years, is decapitated with explosives--the overburden scraped into adjacent valleys--and the exposed coal collected. No living thing survives this removal, and if the land is replanted, its ecosystem will be nothing like that of the ancient mountaintop it previously held. The process is not only destructive and toxic, but ultimately unsustainable: not one of the four hundred plus mountains blasted has yet grown back.

Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays presenting the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining:

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