wendell for wednesday

“I don’t think you can solve poverty as an economic or financial problem and still allow the ground to be destroyed under people’s feet. … All these people yelling about jobs and coal and the war on coal and the EPA have sat by and said nothing, while we let the economy of a quarter of this state [Kentucky] depend upon an extractive and exploitative and brutal industry without ever proposing that economy ought to be diversified.”

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