Mining - environmental effects

BREAKING: mining is now a major threat to the ecosystems closely related to human survival with species increasingly at risk of extinction. 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) March 26, 2023

nuts that every person involved in developing leaded gasoline knew for a fact it was horrifically toxic, the guy who invented it was personally poisoned, and yet industry went ahead for 50 years because the substitute (alcohol) couldn't be patented https://t.co/LByecK2tLC pic.twitter.com/XzD4Vhx604

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) March 16, 2023

Clean energy critics often argue that addressing climate change will require too much mining.

So I looked into the data.

I found that our current fossil fuel economy requires 535x more mining than a 100% clean energy economy would.

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— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) March 29, 2023

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"The Global Reporting Initiative, a voluntary but important way of keeping track of greenhouse gas emissions around the world, has introduced a new standard on responsible mining for critical minerals. It’s important, because without mining we’re not going to be able to build enough green energy, but we need to dramatically reduce the environmental and human rights impact of that mining."

— Bill McKibben, "Bank of America to World: Just Drown Already": Finance capitalism as a suicide machine, The Crucial Years, February 5, 2024

BREAKING: UN Secretary General says world is blindly travelling a dangerous path as unsustainable water use, pollution and unchecked global warming drain humanity's lifeblood 🧵https://t.co/RR3ViVNuBP

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) March 22, 2023

WHY IS THIS POSSIBLE? What a capitalist dystopia.

Tool 1: "Hey, look! Scarcity and pain in the future, let's invest and bet on it so to our financial gain."

Tool 2: "No pain, no gain. No one said the pain had to be ours."

I hate this so much.https://t.co/VaZsh1LdFO

— Jared Beloff (Order Who Will Cradle Your Head) (@Read_Instead) January 31, 2023

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A Chilean Billionaire Strikes Gold In The Budget Bill The budget reconciliation bill includes an environmentally devastating natural resources giveaway to a Chilean billionaire with close ties to the Trump family. Luke Goldstein, Lever News, May 30, 2025