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Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.