Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there

ISBN 10: 1893239497 / ISBN 13: 9781893239494

Published by Wind Publications, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there
• Publisher: Wind Publications
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893239497
• ISBN 13: 9781893239494
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book deals with a subject of the gravest importance---the destruction of the Earth. Kentucky's mountains and the creatures who live there are being devastated by the coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal.

From the Publisher

This book addresses Kentucky's most serious environmental threat -- mountaintop-removal mining and the destruction of the Cumberland Mountains. In this collection of essays, fiction, and poetry, 35 Kentucky writers explore mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky.

The goal of this book is not cessation of all coal mining, but a demand for responsible mining practices and an end to the unnecessary destruction to the land, people, and economy of the eastern Kentucky coalfields and the planet caused by mountaintop removal. Every day many thousands of Kentuckians and residents of the Mississippi valley drink the water from streams that originate in the coal mining region of Kentucky. It's not just a local problem.