Yes, you are right, that is crude verbiage. The sentiment I am trying to convey is to put your family and your community first. I can't stop global warming, but I can experiment with crops that becomes commercially viable in a warmer climate. I can buy land around the great lakes. I can protect my family.
Yes, you are right, that is crude verbiage. The sentiment I am trying to convey is to put your family and your community first. I can't stop global warming, but I can experiment with crops that becomes commercially viable in a warmer climate. I can buy land around the great lakes. I can protect my family.
Mining is a vitally important industry that makes modern life possible. You cannot simultaneously oppose mining while enjoying the trappings of modern life. The eco folks drive me crazy in this regard. They want electrification, but oppose lithium extraction and natgas pipelines. Utterly nonsensical.
There’s mining and there’s mining. I was alluding to Berry’s deep and abiding opposition to the coal miners who (as he tells it) stripped the hills of Kentucky, poisoning the water and destroying the topsoil, either actively or through neglectful remediation practices. Poor agricultural practices also contributed to the erosion of the land.
I suspect he would also question the supposition that the preservation of modern life at any cost is desirable, but it’s safe to assume very few people want to go back to a materials economy based on stone, wood and metal from the occasional meteorite. Granted, then, that mining is vitally important. But, like any industry that has “externalities”, it does need to be regulated so as not to harm the community.
Of course, regulation means community action so I guess, in the end, we can’t get away from thinking about politics and the proper role of government.
Yes, you are right, that is crude verbiage. The sentiment I am trying to convey is to put your family and your community first. I can't stop global warming, but I can experiment with crops that becomes commercially viable in a warmer climate. I can buy land around the great lakes. I can protect my family.
Mining is a vitally important industry that makes modern life possible. You cannot simultaneously oppose mining while enjoying the trappings of modern life. The eco folks drive me crazy in this regard. They want electrification, but oppose lithium extraction and natgas pipelines. Utterly nonsensical.
There’s mining and there’s mining. I was alluding to Berry’s deep and abiding opposition to the coal miners who (as he tells it) stripped the hills of Kentucky, poisoning the water and destroying the topsoil, either actively or through neglectful remediation practices. Poor agricultural practices also contributed to the erosion of the land.
I suspect he would also question the supposition that the preservation of modern life at any cost is desirable, but it’s safe to assume very few people want to go back to a materials economy based on stone, wood and metal from the occasional meteorite. Granted, then, that mining is vitally important. But, like any industry that has “externalities”, it does need to be regulated so as not to harm the community.
Of course, regulation means community action so I guess, in the end, we can’t get away from thinking about politics and the proper role of government.