tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497138.post898686860283825398..comments2024-01-22T03:02:52.051-08:00Comments on California Greening: Global Warming: Why it all mattersWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684763427526399228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497138.post-23819737697791312032008-04-27T15:32:00.000-07:002008-04-27T15:32:00.000-07:00In the early spring of 1996 I went on an ecojustic...In the early spring of 1996 I went on an ecojustice bike tour of Washington DC. I have vivid memories of a stop where they were digging a big hole to put several levels of parking under a huge building that was going to sit on the site. The tour guide called the pit (it was huge by my standards) an "eyesore". It was probably the second biggest hole in the ground I've seen live, the biggest being a huge quarry on I-80 somewhere near Chicago. Scrolling around on that map, I'm really sure that those mountains that had been "topped" are MUCH bigger eyesores. And they are so much more out of step with the natural ecosystems around them. Truly an awful sight.<BR/><BR/>I guess Jesse Johnson wasn't kidding when he said "every day they take a mountain of coal out of West Virginia to make electricity, and it's not sustainable."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com