The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia

Our Readers Speak

June 26, 2009

Our Readers Speak, Saturday, June 27, 2009

Green will be the least renewable resource



Mandating the use of bio-fuels will result in massive tropical deforestation, for it will have to be constantly harvested from climates that produce year ’round. Demand will far outweigh and outpace the capacity to renew. “Reclamation” is a dirty word in mining but not in the tropical arena.

Twenty-two million acres of woodland in the Rocky Mountains have been destroyed by wood beetles; the sight is ghastly and the potential looming danger is horrific.

It’s wrong to use pesticides, yet 22 million acres of raging wildfire emitting tons of carbon into the air is preferable to chemicals. The Colorado River is now in danger because of this infestation. This is exactly what “carbon credits” bring forth.

“Renewable energy” blights vast areas of land and shore, destroying natural organic beauty. The landscape is permanently scarred by network transmission lines, necessary timbering and maintenance roads.

This also disrupts and endangers the local eco-system; the very sins of mining are now acceptable and welcome to harness erratic windpower. How will the tons of steel needed to make each windmill be smelted without the coke that coal provides? And since evolution adapts man to his environment, why now is it necessary for man to change his environment? Shouldn’t our bodies have evolved to survive decades of mining destruction?

The vilification of coal denies clean electricity to third world countries, increasing the choking smog caused by open air burning of wood, dung, coal, and rubbish. How hypocritical it is to see red only in Appalachia while preaching green to save the rest of the world.

The good news is, according to CNN Money June 15, 2009, the highest paying green jobs will average $12 an hour.

That will hardly stuff the coffers of environmental organizations.

Bail money will be scarce for eco-vandals; once the mining machinery is stopped, there’s always another fascist cause that requires lawbreaking to make a point.

Surely by then the companies that produce the chains they use will be driven out of business by them: no coal, no coke, no steel chains. Green is the very thing that empowers these groups and green will be the least renewable resource at their disposal.



Lisa Ellison Bragg

Nimitz

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