Where Did All The Nature Go?

My grandmother lives deep in the Appalachian mountains in Pennsylvania. For the locals, the beautiful landscape was everyday life for them. The shale covered cliffs that hung over roads, great big trees that covered every rocky surface, and white tailed deer that roamed the landscape seemed commonplace for the locals, including my grandma. She has lived in this wilderness for years, and everyday, she sees a terrible change. Because I do not live with her, the drastic changes stick out to me every time I have visited her since 1999. Every Summer, I visit, and every Summer, a little more of the mountain landscape is chipped away. The Pennsylvanian government decided that fracking the mountains for natural gas was the best way to make money for the state. Every year I come to visit, a new facility is built, another mountain is stripped bare of its trees, and more chemicals are pumped into the ground. My grandmother can't drink from her well anymore, because now her water is flammable. I fear that one day there will be no more mountains, and no more trees and no more deer. Only machines and chemicals that poison the land.