January 12, 2011
Today we had a speaker talk about coal. Nick Siler did not present about coal's energy related uses but rather focused on how coal has affected and shaped culture and people. Specifically the American families who depend on coal for everything through the twentieth century. We listened to different songs about coal mining learned that in these towns like Balkan Kentucky life was controlled by coal. Nick Siler who is from a coal mining town in Kentucky pointed out that if America shifted the major energy source from coal to another source that thousands of families who are already not secure financially would put all the families between a chunk of coal and a hard place because the coal companies own everything even the land the families are living on. The presentation was quite different compared to the technology based presentations we've had earlier but it was still very interesting and very eye opening to see anther side of the effects energy has on America.
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