Hurrah for Ms. Gonzales!! Hearty thanks and congratulations to a person who will stand up to the omnipresent dogma that the earth is I inexhaustible, it’s put here for human use, plants and animals don’t count, and everything under the sun can be justified and excused in the name of “jobs”.
That having been said, my guess is that she’s quite aware of the importance of silver in the modern world. But maybe it’s not quite as important as clean water, biodiversity and land on which people can safely live and grow crops? Try living without those?
Look at the open pit mines. They are places devoid of all forms of life. Once the ore is extracted, they will REMAIN devoid of life forever, or at least permanently within any humanly meaningful time frame. In the common mind (and certainly the minds of most miners), no problem! There’s always endless new frontier to move on to, and the planet hasn’t collapsed, yet, so worriers are fools. In the minds of biologists and more thoughtful people, however, these growing pits of planetary extinction have repercussions far, far beyond their nominal footprints and are, indeed, an aspect of planetary collapse currently in progress. Like the person who believes in fiat money, the person who blindly believes in the endlessness of nature won’t see the natural collapse coming, and will be totally taken by surprise when brewing problems explode because they’ve spiraled beyond the point of no return. And nobody knows where that point is.
That having been said, I don’t believe that mining and the environment are totally incompatible. What’s incompatible are the environment and the mindset/attitude of most miners. The several I’ve spoken to over the years all have the same characteristics: they lie consistently to get their agenda accepted; they grossly overestimate their own understanding of the environment and the impact they’re having on it; they likewise grossly overestimate their ability (and willingness) to play nicely and clean up after themselves; they regard anyone not wealthy, or interested in investing, or at odds with their plans, as inherently inferior people; they lack empathy; and their general attitude is “it’s ALL ABOUT ME!!!!”.
There’s no way to work with people like that. They must be continually directed and kept under control by a superior force, because force, selfishness and deception are the only languages they speak. The ones who can be brought to heel, and the very few who will voluntarily respect nature, must be rewarded. The others must be kicked out of the game.
We need both silver AND nature, but we need nature more. Without nature, silver has no value and is meaningless. Let’s support Ms. Gonzales’ efforts to bring balance into the equation. And I mean GENUINE balance, not the elitists’ fake “we’re going to starve and enslave you to save the planet” PC environmental hypocrisy.
So, silver, or planet? We CAN have both, IMO. We NEED both. What we DON’T need is the tone deaf mindset of most miners. If Ms. Gonzales can find a way to work around that, then I think the future will look much brighter for both people and planet.
Provided we can keep the silver out of the hands of the military/industrial complex and return it to its rightful place as currency.
Hurrah for Ms. Gonzales!! Hearty thanks and congratulations to a person who will stand up to the omnipresent dogma that the earth is I inexhaustible, it’s put here for human use, plants and animals don’t count, and everything under the sun can be justified and excused in the name of “jobs”.
That having been said, my guess is that she’s quite aware of the importance of silver in the modern world. But maybe it’s not quite as important as clean water, biodiversity and land on which people can safely live and grow crops? Try living without those?
Look at the open pit mines. They are places devoid of all forms of life. Once the ore is extracted, they will REMAIN devoid of life forever, or at least permanently within any humanly meaningful time frame. In the common mind (and certainly the minds of most miners), no problem! There’s always endless new frontier to move on to, and the planet hasn’t collapsed, yet, so worriers are fools. In the minds of biologists and more thoughtful people, however, these growing pits of planetary extinction have repercussions far, far beyond their nominal footprints and are, indeed, an aspect of planetary collapse currently in progress. Like the person who believes in fiat money, the person who blindly believes in the endlessness of nature won’t see the natural collapse coming, and will be totally taken by surprise when brewing problems explode because they’ve spiraled beyond the point of no return. And nobody knows where that point is.
That having been said, I don’t believe that mining and the environment are totally incompatible. What’s incompatible are the environment and the mindset/attitude of most miners. The several I’ve spoken to over the years all have the same characteristics: they lie consistently to get their agenda accepted; they grossly overestimate their own understanding of the environment and the impact they’re having on it; they likewise grossly overestimate their ability (and willingness) to play nicely and clean up after themselves; they regard anyone not wealthy, or interested in investing, or at odds with their plans, as inherently inferior people; they lack empathy; and their general attitude is “it’s ALL ABOUT ME!!!!”.
There’s no way to work with people like that. They must be continually directed and kept under control by a superior force, because force, selfishness and deception are the only languages they speak. The ones who can be brought to heel, and the very few who will voluntarily respect nature, must be rewarded. The others must be kicked out of the game.
We need both silver AND nature, but we need nature more. Without nature, silver has no value and is meaningless. Let’s support Ms. Gonzales’ efforts to bring balance into the equation. And I mean GENUINE balance, not the elitists’ fake “we’re going to starve and enslave you to save the planet” PC environmental hypocrisy.
So, silver, or planet? We CAN have both, IMO. We NEED both. What we DON’T need is the tone deaf mindset of most miners. If Ms. Gonzales can find a way to work around that, then I think the future will look much brighter for both people and planet.
Provided we can keep the silver out of the hands of the military/industrial complex and return it to its rightful place as currency.