A review by kamckim
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal by Jason Howard, Silas House

4.0

I enjoyed this book. The profiles of various environmental activists were true to character and really enlightening. The Appalachian people are smart, resilient, stubborn, proud of their mountain heritage. The complexity of the issue is not lost in the interviews--jobs vs. nature. What's more important in a region marked by poverty, rural drug culture and petty crime? The answers aren't alway a 109% solution. What impressed me most was several connections between the subjects' love of the mountains and their spiritual sense of being caretakers of the land God has blessed us with. The commitment is not simply out of duty. It's a commitment of gratefulness, and also a bit of destiny.