Mountain Top Removal

Our topic for our class discussion the past two weeks has been the removal of mountain tops for mining purposes. As many of you believe, and I myself being an environmental science major believe this is just an absolute atrocity to nature. Sure we need coal and other natural resources to run things in our country but can we not try and support more environmentally friendly ways of this? Some day when all of our nations natural environment is destroyed because of miners and other companies destroying nature in order to make a profit, we will look back and wish we had found another better source of fuel and other things that would have saved us our beautiful landscape. If we choose to be a better greener nation than we will not only save our environment, but we will set a new goal for other nations to become like us and go green. It only takes one to get the ball rolling and once that happens, it's all downhill from there. In order to stop things such as mountain top removal, we need to get enough support from our people to stop this by organizing nonviolent strikes, petitions, and marches as well as get the support from our legislators and other officials who give these companies that destroy our environment the ability to do so. If we can get high officials backing our cause then we can slowly but surely get others involved and aware of what is happening to our environment and take down these giant monopolies that are in it for profit no matter what it does to the environment. Another way to help our cause would be to attempt to place some sort of law that forces mining companies to put so much money and manpower into rebuilding the environment in which it destroys, that way they can at least give back part of what they destroyed. The best way to save our environment however is to put more money into research for better, safer, and cleaner ways to power our country.