Q, I wonder if pointing at what the coal companies have done in the southern mountains (Kentucky and environs), leveling whole mountains because it's easier to get all the coal that way, but resulting in devastating small communities, poisoning the ground water and clogging streams, and generally leaving a disgusting mess in their wake.

Two songs at least that I know of—Jean Ritchie's Blackwaters and John Prine's Paradise (cover ~ the YouTube audio on all of John Prine's renditions were so bad you couldn't make out the words)—give pretty graphic descriptions of the widespread devastation that the coal companies left behind. There are undoubtedly more songs.

Pretty good example of the kind of "concern" for the land and the people that the big energy companies characteristic exhibit.   (PTUI!!!)

Don Firth