Peabody Coal Is The Eco-Terrorist, Not People Trying To Stop Them
It is profoundly accurate that the sign behind arrested protesters Daniel Goering, 20, and Alice Fine, 19, read, "Fossil Fuels Are Killing Our Future." Let us be clear about this; that is not speculation: It is a fact.
The fossil fuel, logging and slaughter house industries have gotten laws passed that make protesters against their businesses prosecutable, in certain cases, as so-called "eco-terroists."
But it is coal mining companies such as Peabody that are wantonly destroying the earth, making the fossil fuel corporations the eco-terrorists, not young people who are trying to save life as we know it, including their own.
The coal mining companies do a superb job of exploiting rural areas that have few jobs by presenting a choice between jobs and earth destroying pollution or a healthy life with few employment opportunities.