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Sadly, the lack of outrage over MTR may boil down to images and quick definitions. It's easy to turn the spill into a quick sound bite (Oil is pumping into the ocean) and not so easy to do the same with MTR, which is a much more complicated issue; for one thing, it's hard to convince people that to be against MTR does not mean one is against miners. Most of the MTR opponents count miners as one of the reasons they're in this fight to begin with.
And there is that dramatic, sickening image that is easily captured (the oil pumping into the ocean) and put on the morning news shows. A camera can't quite capture the scope of MTR. Even seeing it in person can't really do it justice. The only way one can truly take in the devastation is to do a fly-over, so the sheer magnitude of it can be realized. Which is another reason why Obama should do a fly-over of Appalachia, the same way he's done in the Gulf.
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