Urban vs. Rural; What's to be done?

[C-Mag]

How bout with start with virtue signaling places like Victoria and San Fran that get their cities listed as the Greenest places on the planet but export their waste somewhere else. They are essentially throwing their dog shit over the fence on the neighbors lawn.

I hear great things about cities, about all the brilliant motherfuckers that live there, hell there so fucking smart they are constantly looking down their noses at the rubes in flyover states. Since their so fucking smart they need to build infrastructure to deal with all their waste and environmental pollutants. This is the 21st C. Deal with it. There's your damn solution.

This is Los Angeles TODAY, not 1870 or 1970, but today



Piles of trash they are not picking up, infested with rats, disease is spreading like crazy. Clean the shit up, invest in true garbage processing. You guys want to shrug your shoulders and well, it's a lot of people.

[Speaker to Animals]

They are unable to really see it, dude. They have no idea how far removed they are from nature. Nature, to them, is like a political ideal. They like to talk about it and politicize it, but they have no idea what the fuck it is. They might as well be discussing angels or string theory.

You just have to have lived there to realize they have no fucking idea.

[Speaker to Animals]

Another thing.. the urbanite is very skilled in living in his own filth by rationalizing the misery away as somebody else's fault. Their entire political lives are devoted to figuring out who to blame for their own problems and how to rationalize the blame.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Amazing.

[Speaker to Animals]

It really is amazing when you think about it. The people causing all the environmental catastrophes are sloughing off responsibility upon the people least responsible. Then they demand the rest of us change the way we live to become more like the urbanites who created this mess.

They completely destroyed their ecologies, and have no idea what nature really is, but they have no problem pontificating to people who actually manage this shit how it should be done.

Amazin'

[brewster]

Ooh, I can show pictures and make ridiculous generalizations too!
Look what shit care of the environment they take in the country! They don't give a fuck at all, don't value the natural beauty!

[Speaker to Animals]

LOL

The companies who do all that mountain top removal here in Appalachia all come from Yankeeland, guy. It's pure colonization and raping of a foreign nation of their natural resources. That's on you.

[brewster]

LOL

The companies who do all that mountain top removal here in Appalachia all come from Yankeeland, guy. It's pure colonization and raping of a foreign nation of their natural resources. That's on you.

How convenient, always someone else's fault, eh? "Hell no, we didn't want all those jobs, but we just couldn't compromise our principles of Freeeeedom by making environmentally destructive extraction illegal."

[Speaker to Animals]

LOL

The companies who do all that mountain top removal here in Appalachia all come from Yankeeland, guy. It's pure colonization and raping of a foreign nation of their natural resources. That's on you.

How convenient, always someone else's fault, eh? "Hell no, we didn't want all those jobs, but we just couldn't compromise our principles of Freeeeedom by making environmentally destructive extraction illegal."

Dude, we try to fight mountain top removal. It fucking sucks, man. Do you know who is behind it?

NC, Citi, and UBS are the top three financial enablers of mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a new report by Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club that ranks ten of the world's largest banks.These ten banks have provided more than $2.5 billion (in 16 loans and bond underwriting deals) to mountaintop removal companies since January 2010, according to the report.

The groups behind the report say that five banks have issued new policies on mountaintop removal since last year's report card: Chase, Wells Fargo, PNC, UBS, and Credit Suisse.

Credit Suisse had the best record this year: "The bank has no exposure to coal-mining companies that practice mountaintop removal extraction," writes RAN.

They had this to say about the worst-performing banks:

Citi--despite announcing a public policy on MTR extraction in 2009, the bank has since doubled its exposure to the sector. UBS--immediately after announcing a policy stating that it "needs to be satisfied that the client is committed to reduce over time its exposure to this form of mining," the bank acted as an advisor on the Massey-Alpha combination deal. That deal created the largest single mountain top removal company in the country, responsible for fully 25% of coal production from MTR mines.

"Mountaintop removal coal mining has no place in a clean energy economy, and the banks that finance this destructive practice deserve our scrutiny," said Mary Anne Hitt of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. "Those who fund mountaintop removal coal mining are lighting the fuse that leads to the devastation of communities, waterways and landscapes across Appalachia."

https://www.treehugger.com/corporate-re ... posed.html


We fucking hate that shit.

[brewster]

Wiki: "Don Blankenship was born in Stopover, Kentucky and raised in Delorme, West Virginia." Massey was a southern company, as is the company than bought them. Blaming the banks is bullshit, as is "we tried, but we were spineless in the face of job loss". You pass laws that represent the beliefs of your state's citizens, as NY and CA do. Your citizens believe in destructive extraction.