I Missed this One

The first time around, I somehow missed this:

When it comes to the environment, our new policy is this: Let the heartland live with the consequences of handing the national government to the rape-and-pillage party. The only time urbanists should concern themselves with the environment is when we are impacted--directly, not spiritually (the depressing awareness that there is no unspoiled wilderness out there doesn't count). Air pollution, for instance: We should be aggressive. If coal is to be burned, it has to be burned as cleanly as possible so as not to foul the air we all have to breathe. But if West Virginia wants to elect politicians who allow mining companies to lop off the tops off mountains and dump the waste into valleys and streams, thus causing floods that destroy the homes of the yokels who vote for those politicians, it no longer matters to us. Fuck the mountains in West Virginia--send us the power generated by cleanly burned coal, you rubes, and be sure to wear lifejackets to bed.

Interesting.  Because I would think that coal, whether cleanly burned or otherwise, is going to be uncleanly mined, and it's going to be mined in places where it exists and can be accessed, rather than under metropolises.  And West Virginia needing jobs doesn't *want* to elect these people but someone's got to work to get food on the table, right?  So they mine coal, so that you can have your "cleanly burned coal."  I like how the cities are now going to exploit the yokels.  Ah, when Democrats show their true colors...

I wish this were Jonathan Swift and I wish the people of West Virginia would stop allowing coal mining (as some of them are already trying to do, but they're fighting a losing battle because, again, that tetchy job thing) and you won't have anything to burn, cleanly or otherwise. 

You should go read this Urban Archipelago thing, seriously.  It's rich.  If I keep reading it, I may never vote Democrat again.