How does the imagery below impact the author's tone? It is not committed with guns and knives, but with relentless bulldozers, roaring dump trucks, and giant shovels like mythological beasts. Dynamite cuts and rips apart mountains to reach the minerals inside, leaving nothing but empty, naked hills.

A: It illustrates terracide's as innovative

B: It illustrates strip mining as violent and destructive

C: It shows strip mining as effective

D: It illustrates terracide's as fictional