[Rockhounds] How ending mining would change the world

[Glen Miller]

I won't bet the future on science fiction.

The corporate rulers still won't address population control.

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 11:23 AM Tim Fisher <nospam at orerockon.com> wrote:

> George Martin's books are all excellent, the Expanse stands out. The
> adaptation is an insanely good series, (mostly) based on reality (except
> for spaceships that seem to travel awful darn fast). Asteroids feature
> prominently, some of the mining of course but the depiction of the Ceres
> colony is very cool. And flinging asteroids at Earth as a weapon is a very
> cool concept. As far as I can tell they're done, unless some other
> streaming service picks them up. We haven't seen any other
> streaming/subscription series in its league with the possible exception of
> the alternate history series The Man in the High Castle (based on a Philip
> K Dick novel).
>
> Tim Fisher
> Http://OreRockOn.com
> Email nospam at orerockon.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> Behalf Of axel.emmermann at telenet.be
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2022 6:00 AM
> To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] How ending mining would change the world
>
> Logically thinking: asteroid mining is the next big thing.
>
> On earth, all the chemical elements have gravitationally segregated. All
> or nearly all the interesting stuff (REE) have settled in the earth's
> mantle, ten of miles outside our reach.
> Asteroids are not gravitationally segregated.
> The TV-series "The Expanse" tells a story that is set against that
> situation. If you haven't yet: binge it! Very entertaining and aside of the
> "blue stuff", quite realistic.
>
> CHeers
> Axel
>
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Kreigh Tomaszewski" <kreigh at gmail.com>
> Aan: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com" <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Verzonden: Zaterdag 16 april 2022 14:25:54
> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] How ending mining would change the world
>
> Mining fuels the modern world, but it also causes vast environmental
> damage. What would happen if we tried to do without it?
>
> "If you can't grow it, you have to mine it" goes the miner's credo. The
> extraction of minerals, metals and fuels from the ground is one of
> humankind's oldest industries. And our appetite for it is growing.
>
> Society is more dependent on both greater variety and larger volumes of
> mined substances than ever before. If you live in a middle-income country,
> every year you use roughly 17 tonnes <
> https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/goal-12/> of raw materials –
> equivalent to the weight of three elephants and twice as much as 20 years
> ago. For a person in a high-income country, it is 26 tonnes – or four and a
> half elephants' worth.
>
> Extracting new materials continues to be cheaper than re-use for many
> substances, leading some experts to sound the warning <
> https://ipbes.net/global-assessment> about the increasing pressure of
> mines on the natural world. A growing chorus is concerned that
> environmental toll of mine-caused pollution and biodiversity loss, as well
> as the social impacts caused to local communities, could sometimes outweigh
> the benefits of mining.
>
> But what if we stopped extraction of fossil fuels and minerals entirely?
> What if, in order to better protect the environment, humanity decided the
> contents of the Earth's crust were off limits?
>
>
>
> https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220413-how-ending-mining-would-change-the-world
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