Writing the Perfect Protest Sign (cartoon)
Mean Joe Green #78: Writing the Perfect Protest Sign
Rule #1: Resort to name calling/labeling
Rule #2: Never consider the other side’s motivation
Rule #3: Refer to rule 1 and 2.
I wish these folks were protesting the end result of the actual chain of events that will lead to their future joblessness, which is:
Decreasing demand for coal (due to health concerns for earthlings and earth)=lost jobs for coal miners=find another similar job to suit your skills=can’t because factory jobs have long been shipped overseas to skirt environmental regulations and to exploit cheaper labor=PICKET THAT!–picket lost middle class jobs, the shrinking middle class, and the growing disparity between the rich and poor!
These good people have a right to be angry–but not at the “Treehuggers” who want to put an end to our dependence on fossil fuels. Their hostility needs to be directed at the coal (throw in oil, plastic, and biotech) industry fat cats who have long made billions while poisoning the world (poisoning the world poisons those who live in said world).
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Excellent point. Miners, like anybody, want to raise their families in a safe, healthy environment, including clean drinking water, air that’s not full of toxic dust, and without deadly coal ash waste ponds threatening to drown them and their community in the middle of the night. Mountaintop removal in WV and throughout Appalachia threatens their lives…and leaves a ruined environment that destroys other livelihoods.