Clean energy dream fuels a dirty mineral rush

[airdvr 210]

https://www.rt.com/news/466028-clean-energy-fuels-dirty-mining/

Green isn't as green as it would like you to believe.

[DJL 235]

29 minutes ago, airdvr said:

https://www.rt.com/news/466028-clean-energy-fuels-dirty-mining/

Green isn't as green as it would like you to believe.

While there are downsides to expanded mining, such as that the industry is still currently powered by fossil fuels, I don't think using shoddy Russian mining practices as a reason to not mine cadmium is a good way of making a point.

Edit: And it's also funny that it's an RT article (Owned by the Russian State) so it's essentially like when I pretend I'm really bad at packing so that my girlfriend (a packer) does it for me.  "Ve kannot do theese very bad at mining!"

Edited August 8, 2019 by DJL

[kallend 2,156]

So you're saying that capitalism befouls the planet even while attempting to claim the high ground.  Got it.

[billvon 3,121]

3 hours ago, airdvr said:

https://www.rt.com/news/466028-clean-energy-fuels-dirty-mining/

Green isn't as green as it would like you to believe.

No energy source is perfectly green.  Some are much better than others.

[airdvr 210]

3 hours ago, kallend said:

So you're saying that capitalism befouls the planet even while attempting to claim the high ground.  Got it.

Absolutely John... please show me an economic system that's superior.  Your knee-jerk reaction to someone befouling your precious green energy dream speaks volumes as to how the science treats skeptics.

[gowlerk 2,277]

33 minutes ago, airdvr said:

speaks volumes as to how the science treats skeptics.

Science treats skeptics by saying "show me". Science is very conservative by nature. In the true sense of the word, not the political.