Power of Green

[Guest guest]

I whole-heartedly agree that we are the stewards of our environment --

all of us.

 

However, we can only " control " so much and it seems I run across

something every so often that reminds me that there's a lot of

polluting factors out there.

 

For instance, I was reading The Wall Street Journal this morning, a

book review on a book entitled " The Day the Earth Caved In " by Joan

Quigley. It's based on a true story of a small town in Pennsylvania

whose main source of jobs was the coal industry in the 1800's and early

1900's. The town shut down with the advent of the oil and gas

industry. Then in 1962 a mine fire erupted and the rest of the story

is about how lousy the U.S. government is on taking care of such things.

 

But, the interesting part is that I learned that mine fires are not

unusual. " Spontaneious coal fires from ancient times shaped the

landscape of the American West. Today uncontolled mine fires burn

fiercely in many nations; more than 100 million tons of coal are

consumed by fires annually in China, contributing as much to world-wide

carbon dioxide emissions as all the care and light trucks in the U.S.

In Colorado, one coal mine has burned for 100 years. "

 

Apparently, there is basically nothing that can be done to stop these

fires, and their carbon dioxide emissions.

 

Dede