The Obvious Answer
Sometimes the solution is so blindingly obvious it blinds everyone to it. But Media Czech sees it clearly.
Tobacco is dying (along with it's smokers).
Coal is on the way out (unless we find the magic "clean" kind).
Mountaintop removal is destroying everything in its path.
"Adventure tourism" is.... well, it's fucking stupid.
And meth is destroying every young person caught in between who doesn't escape to some other part of the state/country.
Which begs the question: is there a solution to Kentucky's rural economy that can create jobs, while not ecologically destroying itself (and everyone else)?
The simple answer, is "yes". But it involves a certain stigma, and necessitates politicians who are willing to look past that and focus on what can save rural Kentucky. And it looks like Oregon's lawmakers have what it takes. But they need some additional federal help, or it's all for not.
The answer is industrial hemp.
Read the whole thing.
Personally, I think we should get a jump on California and just legalize marijuana - the highest THC concentration we can find - but I'll settle for hemp.
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For all who 'believe' coal is on the way out, I have a suggestion.
Grasp left earlobe with thumb & forefinger of right hand; replicate with right earlobe & left hand; jerk forcefully removing head from rear of navel.
Coal or Nuke is the only way we can supply the electricity demand. there are a few places where we can place hydro-plants, but until we line all rivers with them and further alter the courses of rivers & creeks and string all the kV wire needed or trench it in - what you see now is wattchu gonna git.
Back to the refrain: mine coal from underground deposits using union labor; burn it with stack scrubbers using caustic soda and powdered lime which removes the CO2 & HG(SO3) yielding a precip ash that is inert and very hard quite usable in asphalt & concrete and Na(CaO2).
Clean coal is a filament of some Republican't's PR-Team. Sequestration of the CO2 gases is a technology yet to be developed and proved. We have developed and proved the technology and implementational engineering to scrub the stacks and deliver the construction materials.
Learn your science; get a job in the coalfields or expect to be shoved to the irrelevant margins of political discourse. What made the New Deal strong enough to last was uniting labor & educators; you are divisive. You are soon to be irrelevant to the discussion and solution.
Solar and/or wind.
Coal or nuke to tide us over during the technology transition. But we MUST switch over to totally renewable stuff. It's the only way the planet (and we) can survive.
Nukes would be ideal, if we could stop fucking up with them. But hey, how is that ever going to happen?
Solar and/or wind. Believe it.
There isn't enough wind anywhere to run a blast furnace. Take an engineering class.
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