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kristopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-11 11:35 AM
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2. From experience I'd say it's poverty as much as anything environmental.
Bone-crushing poverty has long characterized "Life Among Central Appalachian Residents in Mountaintop Mining Counties". Coal may be our least cost energy source, but its low cost has been extracted from the lives of these people and those suffering the effects of its use.
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