A trailer of the upcoming film, Burning the Future. The film takes a hard look at the environmental and human effects of strip mining coal in the US. Please see www.myspace.com/burningthefuture
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Burning The Future: Coal in America – Trailer
Thanks for putting up this video, important subject.?
So pleased to see the dialogue…that’s why we make films like this! Please…keep it going. Our democracy is failing because we don’t have enough dialogue. Thanks for caring enough? to post.
- David (the filmmaker of Burning the Future)
It will take a while for us to transition? into greener energy, but sooner or later we will get there.
I am optimistic that solar, geothermal, wind will be the energy? of the future, decades from now, these renewable resources will provide over 80% of the energy needs. They have been getting cheaper and more efficient. That is, if you guys want it to happen.
Or you can stick to cheep coal which over 10,000 people die from prematurely related to pollution from coal fire plants. Its kinda up to you =/
Renewable energy creates jobs, so can coal, but what is cleaner?
Ok, Ok, lets stop burning coal in our American pollution-controlled scrubber equipped power-plants, which provides heat and energy for jobs and just ship it all over to China, where they produce heat, energy and jobs burning the coal in uncontrolled power plants with no scrubbers.. They get the energy and the jobs and after a? few days of winds we get the pollution.
Half our electricity is from coal. Or would we be better off in the dark, or with sky-high energy costs, no thanks to the green nazis and the NWO criminal elitists, who exploit dumbed-down Americans’? gullibility to push their anti-freedom agenda to seize more and more power over the people, to make the slaves and poorer?
Want to stop use of coal? Then get us that “free energy” technology that the government may be hiding from us, just so they can do weather modification and take over the world.
..PS: Google Earth Europe… Then gaze upon the magnanimous coal-power use of the EU!! Germanys’ coal operations are spectacular! Coal-fired power generation is that continents’ energy life-blood…? “Environmentalism” has many agendas… NONE are for our nations’ good. The roots of its’ leaders lead to disgusting waters… … .
…American postWW2 Democrat/Nazi left-wing politicos’ propaganda! Collaborateurs!! Those ol’ days when human STARVATION was rampant throughout Appalachia must really appeal to you friggin US Nazis! Nawww, man The shadowy creeps at the top of this environmental ‘movement’ were, and/or are, either, still around post WW2- or schooled in college by- Eurasian Nazis… &R still bent on fraggin’ the USA…
There are legitimate claims, yes.. However, “the enemy of my enemy isn’t? necessarily a ‘friend.’
@iamalone1984 i live in leslie co. I know how it is.. my father is a strip miner and? all my moms family is underground miners. for icg! people just dont understand unless they live here so they have no right to say anything about our lives.
@coalmovie shut the fuck up… we dont want your green fucking jobs… seriously this is our!!! way of life.. we can just feed off? your check.. i guess !!!!
I call it Mountain Top expansion… if you live in SEastern kentucky… everything that you shop on was a mining site!… we have no other fucking jobs here.. coal produces almost all the energy you all are using? right now… TAKE AWAY OUR JOBS ….. YOU CAN FUCKING FREEZE TO DEATH HOLDING YOUR LITTLE TREE!!!
“”Coal burning does nuclear fusion, and? releases teh CO2 plants need to grow. No more CO2 in the air than 200 years ago.”"
What!? My goodness… some? peoples children.
@iamalone1984
there would be MORE job if people did underground mining. not stop mining all together? thats not what the documentary says. but stripmining only takes a few people and explosives so how does that supply more jobs? answer that. and how are the people that live there suppose to live, they cant and they shouldnt be forced to move b/c some politician wants money. How long til the mountains are gone. We wont have anymore coal if you blow it up. It is not efficient its just cheaper.
Coal burning does nuclear fusion, and releases teh CO2 plants need to grow. No more CO2 in the air than? 200 years ago.
what do you? do for a living
iamalone1984: First ask yourself, why is work of any importance?? It isn’t. We dont need jobs. All we need is money. In 15 years there will be 40% less jobs than today. Ever heard about rationalisation? So what do you do, when machines are doing the jobs? The economy model is outdated. Thats the point. You should think in future terms.
Why do poeple put the Economy over the Environment??? I hear people saying “screw the earth, we need jobs!” Well what is your job going to do for you when our planet is dying? It isn’t “Us against Nature”, we ARE? nature
Keep on digging. Listen to? george bush. Implement clean coal technology. Energy independants is what this country needs. Will create thousands of jobs. Lasting jobs. WATCH GLEN BECK ON FOX NEWS!
Please google “green jobs Appalachia” and you will find a wealth of info that can get your kids and grandkids out of the mines, drinking clean water, and in lucrative jobs. Thos fighting MTR in Appalachia are locals….and also fighting for clean jobs so? their kids can stay in good health.
ok we are not going to come to an agreement so lets take coal away from? the hundreds of thousands of coal miners and strippers alike and sign up on welfare with the millions of others because there is nothing else in harlan ky for us to do for work. let me guess you are thinking find other work lets see we have walmart ya thats what i could do work at walmart so i can shop at walmart i want you to put your self in my shoes and tell me what to do.
@RadioSchizoUT
Eh, it didn’t show up. Search “ralph? nader mountaintop removal”.
@iamalone1984
watch?v=-o5NzrO5Hn0?
what are people suppose to do for a living someone please give a good? answer.