[at-l] Appalachian Mountain Top Removal

[sloetoe at yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

--- Bror8588@aol.com wrote:

>  > RoksnRoots@aol.com writes:
> But  heck, who are we fooling. These people plan to
> develop it all and simply label it important
> national economy needs.
> 
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> There  is an industry that makes financial gain by
> selling its products to hikers, ...(who$e voice$
$hould be tapped) > Skylander Jack

### I would observe (as many before me) it's even
bigger than that: that it  *IS*  "national economy
needs." There is a unique American Spirit that glories
in a sense of self-reliance, societal independence,
economic entrepreneurship, and spiritual merit, that
each are developed, tested in, and sustained by, just
the sorts of tests provided in feeling "small" in the
woods (and coming metaphorically out the other side).
We have mostly lost that spirit, and we have a moral
decline and increpitude that reaches to the highest of
corporate and governmental heights, only to be matched
by a fiberless sense of civil duty among the
"citizens" of this free society. Holy crud, but we are
in deep shit. Muir said "In Wilderness is the
preservation of the world." Indeed.

'toe

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