Coal: A Love Story
Stop whatever you’re doing, and visit http://www.poweringanation.org/coal/ to watch the “interactive film” put together by UNC Chapel Hill’s “Powering a Nation” team and released just last week.
It is, at the same time, both beautiful and chilling. The series of videos and infographics follow families in West Virginia, Illinois, and Wyoming whose lives and livelihoods are both dependent on, and threatened by, coal as our nation’s primary energy source.
In one of the first video vignettes, a young woman wrestles with her desire to leave home and attend college, and to stay near her family in West Virginia. The daughter of a coal miner, she proudly states that she will never stop defending coal.
Casting her words in sharp relief, the girl’s mother crosses herself as her husband leaves the house, understanding that every day he goes, he may not return.
The site offers a series of video vignettes with some really stunning cinematography and a handful of infographics and interactive calculators that show just how dependent on coal you (and I) really are.
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