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Originally Posted by pj3000
^ Yeah, I understand all the points made... I may not agree with them, but I understand what both of you are trying to say. However, advocating for increased domestic coal production is a difficult position to defend... especially considering the history and effects of the coal industry in the Appalachian US, West Virginia in particular. A two hundred year old, deeply-ingrained industrial system based on the lowest form of economic development, that being natural resource extraction, has very much to do with a state's social problems.
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Do you have any ideas as to how to continue on with modern day society without natural resource extraction? Hell, we've been extracting natural resources, since, well, forever. I mean, you do realize that, even if, say, 100% of our power came from the wind, we'd still need some level of natural resource extraction.