Avatar In Appalachia.

[IkranTswonya]

I originally posted this elsewhere. Just posting it here to raise awareness too.

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rp...ppalachia.html

That's because the plot of the movie essentially mirrors the tragedy that is unfolding in Appalachia today. In the film, a rapacious mining company invades the lush, biodiverse planet of Pandora to extract a mysterious black energy rock they call "unobtainium." The company, backed by a powerful army, will stop at nothing to get this resource -- and the planet's residents pay the price in terms of rampant destruction of their homeland.

You could say the same about the folks in Appalachia, who now suffer the consequences of the world's worst coal mining: mountaintop removal.
There are a couple of other related links in the articles:
http://trueslant.com/johnmcquaid/201...ar-no-fantasy/
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/coal/mtr/

The pictures are really depressing.