Your house, or mine?

Your house, or mine? Depending upon the situation and setting, that could be a reasonable question. In the setting in which I am going to apply it, it's not.

We are all aware of the destruction that longwall mining causes. Not to mention it's cousin, mountain top destruction. But, it seems to me that its always about someone else's home. A house in another locale. People that we don't know lived, or used to live there.

But, supposing that this were not the case. Let us suppose that the question posed were to be applied to the reader and an exec for one of the planet killing companies. Just as a refresher, that would be Consol, Massey, Peabody or one of their ilk. Do you believe for one moment that there would be any real question at all? Can you imagine that one of those bloated, soulless individuals would say something like, "no problem, I'll take the hit?"

As long as its someone else's house, as long as it doesn't materially affect them, they really have no interest whatsoever. So, you're house or mine, would/could never come up. There is too much money and power involved not to destroy your/my house. There is also too much money and power for their's to ever be in jeopardy.