To: President Donald Trump
President Obama: Reopen the CCC and Revitalize the Land
We, the undersigned, urge you to reopen the Civilian Conservation Corps and strengthen AmeriCorps in an effort to give unemployed citizens, returning soldiers, homeless people and displaced residents jobs restoring the land, building villages and revitalizing the regions of the country that have been adversely affected by mountaintop removal, surface mining and other industrial destruction.
Why is this important?
Parts of my once beautiful homeland in the Appalachian Mountains now look like war zones, with craters and plateaus where 525 mountains once stood. Revitalizing the regions of the country that have been adversely affected by industrial utilization is crucially important to our future and needs to be a top priority.