In that episode the evil earth raping miners said that they didnt like strip mining but saw it as an economic issue and much safer than being underground.
While really interesting 30 Days seems to have an agenda mostly of the liberal hand wringing type. Hey, life itself is dangerous make peace with that concept and move on. The corollary is life isn’t fair or perfect. Liberals seem unable to grasp these concepts. I thought his way of handling his hosts black lung diagnosis was amazingly tactless.