Dawn of the Climate Dead
Last Friday on Halloween, zombies converged on coal financing banks in Boston, Asheville, Johnson City, TN and other cities. The zombies gave Bank of America and Citi a vision of the future if they don’t stop financing dirty coal plants and mountaintop removal.
From the Zombies’ press release:
“Bank of America and Citibank are top investors in coal. Ravenous coal companies, funded billions of dollars by these banks, are literally blowing the tops off of mountains throughout Appalachia to extract seams of coal. Nearly 500 mountains have been decapitated, and over 1200 miles of rivers and steams have been buried with debris and toxic waste. Associated floods, landslides, and explosions have driven communities from their homes while destroying surrounding ecosystems. Burning coal is the nation’s top source of air pollution and toxic mercury, and is responsible for one-third of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Despite all of this, more than 150 new coal-fired power plants are in various stages of development around the country. If completed, these plants would have a total effect equivalent to doubling the number of cars on our roads. Meanwhile, our government is relaxing laws in order to allow for even more coal mining.”
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November 4th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Ha. I love coal and work in the industry. Its not going anywhere. Don’t like coal then turn off your lights
November 4th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Sorry about your job Matt – we’ll try to help create a healthier, more sustainable one for you as coal becomes obsolete!
November 4th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Hey do you think you can change the link to: http://maclellanimages.com/blog1/2008/10/31/zombie-march-on-coals-top-investorts-copley-square-boston/ because soon the other link will be wrong. Thanks so much.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I must say that my having grown up in one of the most beautiful places on earth “the applachan mountains of West Virginia”, can never ever happen again like it did 60 years ago. In the 1960’s our Almost Heaven West Virginia, stopped strip mining! Now my family can no longer drink the water! When I was a child every home, had there own FREE Pure Drinking water well. Now we must buy city water that has been treated with clorine and other chemical so that it is drinkable. A neighbor in her family home has salt water comming out of her tap! there is no city water for her to pipe into her home. She must even purchase water to bath in.
The stream that we waided in and swam in as children is now orange and black with the by products of the mines. No longer is strip mining against the law! We can thank the wonderful government for changing the fact that now it is considered “Fill” not against the eco laws. Lets us just dump that fill here in this ‘holler’ Won’t matter to any of them hillbillies. They can’t tell the difference anyway.
You do not care that the miners get BLACK LUNG, they don’t madder much anyway. And the mine owners can just keep on shoveling in the money!
One day, children will only see pictures of the real beauty that surrounded us daily. A W Va. native going back to the 1700’s.