Watch mountains explode, rivers turn black and grown men cry.
Nope, we're not talking about 2012, but another disturbing movie debuting this weekend about the end of the world.
At least, the end of the world as Appalachian residents know it.
Sierra Club has gone cinematic with their environmental protection in Coal Country, a feature-length documentary that shows in graphic detail that our coal-fired power plants aren't just killing us with the global warming pollution that spews from the smokestacks.
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, the movie investigates mountaintop removal mining -- which is exactly what it sounds like -- and how the earth-scouring practice effects the lives of workers and residents of the surrounding communities.
The national television runs starts Saturday, when the film debuts on Planet Green television at 8 p.m. But Kansas City residents are invited to a sneak preview tonight.
Local environmentalist Kerry Anderson is hosting a house party at her place -- 12123 Goodman St., Overland Park, Kansas -- starting at 7 p.m. The only thing Sierra Club asks in return for the hospitality is that attendees consider writing a letter to President Obama, urging measures restricting mountaintop removal practices, after the screening.
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To provide proof they are hypocrites I have to answer this....
Did they use electricity produce by coal fired power plants to produce the movie any any capacity at all? To advertise it? And did they pay for the alternative themselves alone?
The fact of the matter is they have yet to "develop the new technology" without using MY money to do it. So we kill a few people to provide electricty to the world. Call it survival. If ANY one of these people can get through their day without using "coal produced" electricity in some fashion, I would like to see it. End product is the same electricity, only difference is that renewable technology will eventually price the poor out of the electric consumer market. You think your poor now, try chalk boards instead of computers.
These are the same people that say we have a "human right" to health care. News flash, people! Check out the entire continent of Africa. There, you are freaking lucky just to have first aide, more less, health care. The rich survive better than the poor. That's the way it is, and that's the way it will be.
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