What's the worst result of mountain top removal?

Question

besides the fact that the 'reclaimed sites' (that is lucrative to the miners for putting grass over what they shaved off) cannot be used since they have zero fertility and that the kids and people nearby have many dust/coal/debris-induced ailments like asthsma, coughing sicknesses and that the beauty is gone from the mountains and it looks horrendous?

Answer 1

If you reframe the issue from economics and profit to a moral issue, why do men think they have the right to act like Gods and redesign the world to their liking at the expense of everything else? The negative physical results speak for themselves, and the lands that have been rapped like this will be telling their stories of abuse for thousands of years. I live in Colorado, and the scares from the many boom/bust cycles that occured here for gold and silver can still be seen, and the pollution in some cases is getting worst as the mine tailing decay and are washed down stream.

So for me the worst result is the long sad story the land will be telling about those who live today, to the generations that will come later and wonder how we could have been so foolish, selfish, greedy and unconcerned about the future.

Answer 2

Without the trees to hold the soil, erosion will make the rivers muddy and may kill the fishes and wildlife that depend on the food chain.

Answer 3

all the externalities that are not factored in