As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I’m going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of “Green Energy” Follow along and I will explain.
Has John ever been on Copperhead road? Just curious.
Read recently where ultimately we’ll all live in a soul crushing “Blade Runner” dystopia of blackouts and bubbling lakes of toxic soup from discarded batteries while the world’s elite tool around quietly in their EVs.
Surprised John didn’t bring up the fact that half the world’s cobalt comes from artisanal mines in the Congo. If you want to see the deepest depths of human misery watch videos of thousands of children hammering away on rocks for pennies a day.
Mention that to the Maureen Huxter in your life.
Same as his Daddy and his Daddy before…
I’d bet you’re the only one who got that dan.
Some others here, will have gotten it as well.
Which is why the WEF loons need to reduce the population to under a billion quickly.
Well, they can get a head start by setting the example.
There’s always the “the communists are showing up to protest the fascists” approach. Re: Davos.
“Oh whichever Saint is in charge of large rocks falling from the heavens, hear my prayer…”
There is no doubt the mining industry can be an ugly business. I get the fact that green energy isn’t really green. But one fifth of China is polluted by mining? Kind of lost me on the hyperbole.
Also, without green energy we are still using an amazingly high amount of minerals, oil & gas, coal, cutting down trees, creating pollution. It is because the population of the planet is 8 B people and rising and the fact that we just don’t give a shit. That is not mining’s fault.
More succinct: New Green Energy is a Big Lie.
Bumper stickers should be issued.
quick google search lists agencies and reports of the 20% number. Don’t know the veracity of the reports. Do know that the reports are asking for $$ to remedy the situation. Lots of arable acres in USA and Israel wasted by salt pollution using old style irrigation methods
You’re a farmerboy. I’m a minerboy. I’ve traveled extensively in China since 1986. 20% is bull-crap. Industrial pollution (aka the use of mined material) maybe. But that is entirely a different story. In China it’s mostly city or farmland. Mines are tiny, even their pollution. Just use Google Earth and see for yourself.
Hey Steve I understand there is damn little unpolluted ground water in China. Was told that some 20 years ago and I doubt things have changed for the better.
Given their massive industrial base coupled with a population in excess of 1.4 billion, well again I say, ‘I doubt things have changed for the better.
No?
At SDA he’s preaching to the choir and certainly none here need their bias confirmed any more. But it isn’t bias, is it?
Its facts and math and engineering.
And nothing kicks a Greentard Climate Doomer in the head more than those three words.
That’s why telling the truth these days is often labelled as misinformation by freaks like Juthtin and Jathinda.
And that’s another reason to own guns and lotsa ammo.
From your lips to Smith and Wesson’s ears, pass the salt and the fmj’s please, ease up on the gravy.
The problem isn’t energy, its politics.. More or less the left wants representation in areas of our economy and society that were under right wing control before.. Money is power and the next best thing to starting a war and winning it is defunding your opposition..
Saving the world is a unmeasurable concept.. Bankrupting your opposition is not..
If it beaks cleanly along political lines the chances of it being a real problem that needs solving is near zero.. Government doesn’t solve problems (name a single one).. They put them on life support so they can feed off of them forever..
Our civil war.. Our two different business plans is like a company with two different sets of upper management working independently from each other.. Its a disaster..
That’s why Economics is The Dismal Science. Libertarian economics says “you can’t have all of these at once because…”. Marxist economics says “you can have everything at once, cheaper than the capitalists say it can be done!” but is a lie.
The Great Reset is Marxist economical thinking.
How can you tell a liberal?
Answer..You can’t,you can’t tell a liberal anything.
Very old joke,however Gang Green is even more obtuse and delusional.
The deliberate stupidity of our modern “Environmentalist” is impossible to parody.
And so dangerous to civilized society that soon enough we will be forced to banish these absolute idiots from our midst.
Douglas Adams made a crack,in The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, about mastering the ability to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast.
This is your modern Planet Saver.
There is a quote along the lines of;
“The modern environmental activist will do anything,anything ,no matter how insane or criminal,to “Save the Planet..
Anything.
Except …Bother to get an education about how this “environment” works..”
As in them old classics..
Biology.
Chemistry.
Physics.
And Classical Literature and Arts.(Otherwise known as history and what went before).
Now Geology fits in there somewhere as a perspective of the life and times of Rocks,including the planet,is required.
I am amazed and appalled by the success of “Public Education”.
The “Internet Age” was going to bring us “Information” like never before.
Holy Crap.
Now that “information” is there,but do you ever have to dig and filter through the junk.
And I keep wondering,is the Appealing to authority junk,that always gets offered up in the first 5 pages of a Google search ..Real or intentional?
And that censorship thing..
Funny stuff.
Now nothing lasts forever,but we Western Canadians sit atop energy wealth that will outlast our Great Grandchildren.
Unless we want to starve and freeze in the midst of plenty,we must separate our affairs from the believers of Pixie Dust,Unicorn Farts and Intermittent Power.
For only a secure and bountiful energy source allows the wealth and luxury we have become accustomed to.
Leaving us the luxury to clean up our industries and mitigate the effects of resource extraction.
And the TIME to worry about 1st World Concerns..
As a snide aside,the idiots who most loudly whine about the “environmental Horrors ” of our heroic efforts to clean up natures biggest oil spill in the Athabasca..can’t even find it on a map..
And would be lost in the barrens if you told them to “Fly north from Edmonton until you spot it”.
Meh ..another business opportunity.
Ditto the Diamond Mines up in the NWT..”Terrible Pollution”..Ravaging the earth..
Can’t find it on map.
Gang Green,are as poisoness and destructive as good old gaseous gangrene .
And require the same treatment.
Electric Cars may have a future..
As mobile electric chairs.
Or as a substitute for “Burning on the cross”..
Who knew?
Kind of like snowmobiling on thin ice,choosing to drive such “technology” might be a self correcting problem.
Except the mess when a battery and a bunch of plastic burn together is just awful..
“Somebody should do something about it” Har har..Ban combustible cars..
Along with Assault Style Liberal Morons.
“The “Internet Age” was going to bring us “Information” like never before.”
I ran across a meme a while back that noted (paraphrasing), “We’ve never had access to more information and never seen more ignorance.”
The sum total of mankind’s accumulated knowledge is available at the push of a few buttons … yet the vast majority of our population watches TiKTok videos all day …
… or comments on Canadian blogs 🙂
The latter of which is eminently more educational & valuable.
“Douglas Adams made a crack,in The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, about mastering the ability to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast.”
I believe it was actually Lewis Carol via the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
You are correct.
Happens more every year.
Somebody said something..and I liked it.
Now who the???
It being Lewis Carrol makes it even worse.
We remain just as dumb all over and a little ugly on the side,as Lewis Carrol mocked mankind …
Oh right ,that was frank Zappa.
I have been saying what that man said about mining etc, with much fewer words. Golly, I wonder just how I could possibly think that way?
So, the left and right now agree: Resource exploitation will make the sky fall.
The last two years has turned everybody into screaming Karens.
Why are we paying attention to an uneducated miner, instead of highly educated professyrs and journalists?
Heh, right on target, so expect flack.
Urinalists have no concept of what it takes to be a mining or farming (or any other kind) of professional.
Why are we recycling the FAILED “renewables” of the 1970’s? Ohhhhh yeahhhhh … because solar panels can be made wayyyyy cheaper now in Communist China.
I’m against EV mandates because I care about the Congolese!
No wait, it’s because I care about people getting hurt in battery fires!
No, its because I care about people not being able to go on road-trips!
No, its because I care about urban fools freezing to death in the sticks!
I’m so freakin’ virtuous I can’t stand it!
I care so much!
The problem with EV mandates isn’t the EV part, its the mandate part, but the principle of Caveat Emptor is long dead in the west, along with every other guiding principle we once embraced.
Cause & effect. The problem w/ EV mandates is the entire premise upon which it is predicated is bullshit. Remove Globull Warming from the equation & the entire straw house collapses.
I disagree. Even if the premise on which the mandates are based was correct, I would still be opposed to them.
It seems that off-shore wind also disrupts fish populations, as well as being bird-blenders. Seems the increased surface turbulence has an effect on temperature gradients in the water, which has an effect on plankton, etc, which cascades through the local ecosystem, but I figure starvation is a feature, not a bug, if recent history is any guide.
Also, hydrogen power is a total scam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklo4Z1SqkE
Waring: The video is totally anti-fossil fuel, but she does give some good data about how stupid the idea of a hydrogen energy economy is.
This green insanity needs to be stopped by any means necessary.
One little detail that everyone leaves out when discussing this is the tremendous amounts of diesel fuel and electricity it takes to mine. A single Cat 793 haultruck burns approx 2000 L of fuel a day. We have 14 of them in the small mine where I work, running 24/7 plus dozers graders, excavators, loading shovels and drills. All running on diesel although the shovels are electric. So is the entire grinding process in the mill and everything else. You can’t have green without burning fuel.
This WEF bullshit needs to be stopped today!
These davos devil worshiping bastards need to be drowned, before they kill us all.
Trudolf and half his elves have been stealing and destroying Canada for the past number of years.
Vote the demonic communists out!
Never read a bigger pile of bs. Flat out wrong.
Tell me more.
Bet you can’t refute any of the basic facts offered up..Cause you got..Jack.