Burning The Future: Coal in America - Trailer

A trailer of the upcoming film, Burning the Future. The film takes a hard look at the environmental and human effects of strip mining coal in the US. Please see www.myspace.com/burningthefuture

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• coal
• mountaintop
• removal
• MTR
• environment
• mountains
• documentary
• trailer
• Novack
• green

[coalmovie]

So pleased to see the dialogue...that's why we make films like this! Please...keep it going. Our democracy is failing because we don't have enough dialogue. Thanks for caring enough to post.

- David (the filmmaker of Burning the Future)

[iamalone1984]

ok we are not going to come to an agreement so lets take coal away from the hundreds of thousands of coal miners and strippers alike and sign up on welfare with the millions of others because there is nothing else in harlan ky for us to do for work. let me guess you are thinking find other work lets see we have walmart ya thats what i could do work at walmart so i can shop at walmart i want you to put your self in my shoes and tell me what to do.

[coalmovie]

Please google "green jobs Appalachia" and you will find a wealth of info that can get your kids and grandkids out of the mines, drinking clean water, and in lucrative jobs. Thos fighting MTR in Appalachia are locals....and also fighting for clean jobs so their kids can stay in good health.

[dozer3man]

thease fuccking dum asses need there power cut off and let them put a fucking windmill on top there house see if that will keep them warm this summer wtf people your fighting your dam selfs

[coalmovie]

As if our only choice were going off the grid or destroying mountains and making people sick. Fortunately, life isn't that simple - we have many more choices than that and should be exploring them. Let's get a green energy economy going in the coalfields so miners children can have good, clean, healthy jobs and the land and people can survive. This absolutely can be done. But you have to want that for your kids.

[pennilesscripple]

god bless the people who are making this movie

the land belongs to the people who live on it

it is time to revoke the 'rights' of corporations to run roughshod over the rights of people, plants, and animals

[coalmovie]

Thank you for your kind words. Spread the news about the trailer. I will send an email with a website soon, where folks can register for new about the film.

Best,

David.

[Nightversionn]

Thanks for putting up this video, important subject.

[curingaging00]

It will take a while for us to transition into greener energy, but sooner or later we will get there.

[curingaging00]

I am optimistic that solar, geothermal, wind will be the energy of the future, decades from now, these renewable resources will provide over 80% of the energy needs. They have been getting cheaper and more efficient. That is, if you guys want it to happen.

Or you can stick to cheep coal which over 10,000 people die from prematurely related to pollution from coal fire plants. Its kinda up to you =/

Renewable energy creates jobs, so can coal, but what is cleaner?

[ChgoSTrider]

Ok, Ok, lets stop burning coal in our American pollution-controlled scrubber equipped power-plants, which provides heat and energy for jobs and just ship it all over to China, where they produce heat, energy and jobs burning the coal in uncontrolled power plants with no scrubbers.. They get the energy and the jobs and after a few days of winds we get the pollution.

[pronatalist]

Half our electricity is from coal. Or would we be better off in the dark, or with sky-high energy costs, no thanks to the green nazis and the NWO criminal elitists, who exploit dumbed-down Americans' gullibility to push their anti-freedom agenda to seize more and more power over the people, to make the slaves and poorer?

Want to stop use of coal? Then get us that "free energy" technology that the government may be hiding from us, just so they can do weather modification and take over the world.

[SittingMooseShaman]

..PS: Google Earth Europe... Then gaze upon the magnanimous coal-power use of the EU!! Germanys' coal operations are spectacular! Coal-fired power generation is that continents' energy life-blood... "Environmentalism" has many agendas... NONE are for our nations' good. The roots of its' leaders lead to disgusting waters... ... .

[SittingMooseShaman]

...American postWW2 Democrat/Nazi left-wing politicos' propaganda! Collaborateurs!! Those ol' days when human STARVATION was rampant throughout Appalachia must really appeal to you friggin US Nazis! Nawww, man The shadowy creeps at the top of this environmental 'movement' were, and/or are, either, still around post WW2- or schooled in college by- Eurasian Nazis... &R still bent on fraggin' the USA...

There are legitimate claims, yes.. However, "the enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily a 'friend.'