Mining Misdirected
In the linked New York Times article, “The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land”, the world illegal or illegally appears 49 times – apparently, none of the five contributing authors had a hardcopy of a Thesaurus or knew how to access one online.
The story smells of leftist rhetoric that has never taken a shower. First, it’s a full frontal assault on Brazil’s populist President Jair Bolsonaro, who the legacy media has loathed since he took office in 2019. In their opinion and politically charged derangement, other than speaking Portuguese, he epitomizes the buffoonery of Donald Trump.
Even though the article acknowledges that Bolsonaro “put the military in charge of coordinating efforts to protect the Amazon against environmental crime”, which no other president before him did, he is wholly criticized for his populist ideologies. It is illegal to mine or prospect for materials on Indigenous territories in Brazil and the military has been charged with ensuring enforcement in this matter.
It is an attack on mining for performing the work that the progressives, like the New York Times, set into motion. Since the eco-political left has embraced renewable energy sources, the need for massive battery storage has become an unconditional necessity. Batteries required a multitude of mined minerals. Environmentalists in their hypocritical ignorance, despite the activity delivering the essence of their whims, detest mining.
While the New York Times concentrates its story on gold, Brazil’s National Mining Agency says its copper, nickel, and other metals and minerals for green energy that is the actual prize.
It is really quite astonishing how the elitist newspapers invoke misdirection in their reporting to push progressivism and socialism as the world’s caring and compassionate ideology, while in reality, it’s all an intense effort to advance leftist political doctrine and elections.