The Madness of Mass Mining
Peak oil is a theoretical point at which oil and gas reserves in the world will begin to decline. Peak oil has been predicted to be reached three times. In 1980, it was estimated that peak oil would be reached in 2000. In 1996 that was raised to 2020, while in 2002, it was lowered to 2010. With continued discoveries, despite no deceleration in use, peak oil has not yet been reached.
The campaigners in the climate change crowd like to converse about the peak oil and its eventual depletion, yet they never mention peak minerals or elements in the creation of renewable energy structures, infrastructure, or battery storage. As the linked article states, “For largely ideological reasons many greens and “transitionists” have presented the transition to renewables as a smooth road with no potholes.”
Prior to that statement, it warns, “There are dramatic limits to growth.”
In other words, climate change fanatics intentionally ignore an immense escalation in mining. This is for both base metals such as copper, nickel, lithium, iron, and cobalt as well as a large number of rare earth minerals.
A most meaningful and consequential paragraph in the article states, “One of the great lies of modern technological society is that of endless mineral abundance. Urban consumers, who have little knowledge of energy realities underpinning their existence, have swallowed the idea that digital gadgets and automation will somehow detach society from the physical world and allow us to do more with less, leading to a dematerialization of society.”
The article provides details, data, and reports from minerals experts, who proclaim the ignorance of mining and minerals by climate activists gives no consideration to, “reaching net-zero emissions by extinguishing the last remnants of biodiversity in the process.” In other words, their cure to extinguish the claims of their cause, even in one believes in climate change, is worse than the hoaxed disease.
On that accusation, Olivia Lazard director of Peace in Design Consulting Ltd in the Hague, says “If we delve into a scramble for rare earth minerals (and that process has already begun) then various governments and corporations could well plunder what’s left of the planet as well the seabed and distant asteroids on the much-vaulted path to decarbonization. We could actually lose the future of humanity trying to save it on behalf of the climate. And this is the ultimate irony, right?”
It is important to know that China and Russia are monopolizing mineral sites worldwide to take a stranglehold on the minerals climate alarmists take for granted as they falsely and unconsciously target the fossil fuels industry. Furthermore, radical environmentalists that promote renewable energies also abhor mining. As I write in the “Misery of Mining”, the federal government canceled, “permits and mining leases for copper in the Maturi Deposit in a geological area known as the Duluth complex. This is an area between Ely and Babbitt in northern Minnesota and a historic producer of copper”.
Progressive politicians and their environmental activist devotees are prone to handcuff the earth irrespective of senseless eco-activity - I cannot believe that their political hierarchies are so irrational or shortsighted that they actually regard renewable energies as an answer to their make-believe ills of a deteriorating climate. This once again shows that anthropogenic climate change is merely a false conduit to political power.
The linked article is eye-opening. I recommend it be read in full.
