Bald Eagle Mountain is alive! When it's not pouring strong skin-burning acid out if it's human induced wounds from the pyrite that was cut into with Bud Shuster's highway, it's now shaking and keeping neighbors awake with loud banging noises into the night.
'Throughout our history as a country, we’ve quickly turned on popular products we once liked because of unintended effects from that product, usually health-related. (You know, like Chipotle.) But perhaps the product we’ve most famously done this with is asbestos, the naturally occurring fibery crystals which gained infamy after we realized that those fibers were dangerous carcinogens. It’s an issue that still gets frequently litigated today—due in part to the 27.5 million workers exposed to the substance between 1940 and 1979, according to a 1986 report by the American Thoracic Society. "
"Turn on your tv, turn it on so loud
And watch the fool a smiling there and tell me that you're proud
And listen to your radio, the noise it starts to pour
Oh I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?"
"Read your morning papers, read every single line
And tell me if you can believe that simple world you find
Read every slanted word till your eyes are getting sore
I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?"
"And listen to your leaders, the ones who won the race
As they stand right there before you and lie into your face
If you ever try to buy them, you know what they stand for
I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?"
"Put ragged clothes upon your back and sleep upon the ground
And tell police about your rights as they drag you down
And ask them as they lead you to some deserted door
Yes, I know you're set for fightin', but what are you fightin' for?"
"But the hardest thing I'll ask you, if you will only try
Is take your children by their hands and look into their eyes
And there you'll see the answer you should have seen before
If you'll win the wars at home, there'll be no fighting anymore."
"Scientists in Canada have warned that massive glaciers in the Yukon territory are shrinking even faster than would be expected from a warming climate – and bringing dramatic changes to the region. After a string of recent reports chronicling the demise of the ice fields, researchers hope that greater awareness will help the public better understand the rapid pace of climate change."