cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/38780244

This documentary is one of those things where you have to look past who's doing the communicating and who they're communicating to to see what the people in the documentary are really going on about.

I particularly noticed that the professional forester making activated charcoal is someone who frequently talks about how the fact that there aren't more local water filtration manufacture as a cottage industry is because banks don't provide loans for that. It's part of how poverty is enforced as policy, however only one part of his spiel was presented as part of this plea for help (possibly thinking maybe a bank would finally finance a loan).

But I also noticed that in this fight for our water systems in central Appalachia is centered in this video on the religious organizations working against the fossil fuel industry. The coalition is broad and the United Methodists shown here are acting alongside agnostics, atheists, buddhists, and Cherokee spiritual practitioners. However, they've gotten the most media attention. All of us support them in their efforts to help us, and they take the advantages they can get, but we also all can't help but notice that the media doesn't want to demonstrate how broad this coalition is.

Because that's the BIG thing here. Our local community members are doing everything they can to protect each other from the damaging of industrialization that does not benefit the working people of this world. The mining companies come here promising they'll make us rich and then 10 years later about 6 people are rich in money and everyone's poor in food and water (the only things you can truly ever be rich in).