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In Erik Reece's, Lost Mountain, (Erik Reece, Lost Mountain, 2007) he argues against Mountain Top Removal, the process of removing the tops of mountains to more easily access the coal seams and collect the coal; these arguments are very powerful and moving to the reader, and he uses both his memories of the mountain he visits disappearing and the accounts of those living around the mountain. In one account of the disappearing mountain he talks about the families of those that were severely effected on an emotional scale; in one account a mother, who was going to see her son graduate recalls how a dangerously overfilled truck plowed into her son’s car and got away with it through the coal companies tactics; they send two truckers at a time to transport their dangerously overfilled trucks to back up each others stories. This trucker later admitted to using drugs that day and hitting the graduating student; Erik Reece's book, Lost Mountain really shows the dramatic effects of the coal companies carelessness for those other then themselves.