‘GREEN NEW DEAL’ RELIES ON MINERALS ENVIRONMENTALISTS WON’T ALLOW US TO MINE

Heartland Institute ^

[ameribbean expat]

Rather than try to impose the numerous costly mandates and socialistic programs of the Green New Deal, policymakers should focus on improving U.S. industry and making the nation more mineral-independent, a move that would allow for greater technological innovation in the future, both within and outside of the energy sector.

[ameribbean expat]

Energy independent by 2020:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/EIA-forecasts-US-oil-production-to-rise-through-13557936.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

Now do minerals.

[bray]

The Green New Deal is the latest name for Communism.

[RedMonqey]

I’m sure most empty headed greenies will say we don’t need mines, just go to tech store and buy it there.

I’m not kidding when I say I overheard a fellow student say “we didn’t need farms... we had a kroeger and we get our food there”

True story.

[MichaelCorleone]

I went back to the article to see is rare earth metals are mentioned. They are, although she doesn’t elaborate much.

Early in this administration some of us tried quite hard to get the EPA to smarten up and allow us to mine and use our own REMs, instead of being dependent on China.

Maybe this is part of the trade talks and one side is using REMs as either a bargaining chip or stick, I don’t know.

But I do know we are blessed with all that we need to survive and thrive in today’s world and in the future. No idea what we’re waiting for.

[FreedomPoster]

Good article, bump.

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah, there is a lot of Unobtainium that is needed to violate the minor laws of physics that is required for the Green New Deal.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This is an excellent article. Thanks for posting. The Heartland Institute does excellent work.

The author does a superb job of laying out the fallacies of the GND in a simple, easy to understand fashion.

She is spot-on when she says the Dems are either pulling the wool over our eyes or are completely ignorant of the mining required to get copper and REMs for “green” energy tech. At first, I was inclined toward they are keeping the truth from us. Then, I leaned more toward them being downright stupid when it comes to tech and the economy. Then I switched back to them being conniving and devious. Finally I decided it’s both.

[oldasrocks]

True, in other countries too. We had a foreign exchange student that refused to eat at our house after we butchered a beef. During the process, which we made him help, he thought we were making dog food. He drank a lot of milk till we took him to a local dairy and showed him where milk comes from.
The restaurant downtown assured him the hamburger they served came from the store.

Are people so removed from reality?

[willyd]

Never ascribe to malice that which you can ascribe to ignorance

[RedMonqey]

Are people so removed from reality?

Yes.

The further we are removed from our agrian past, like butchering your own meat, the food process becomes a distant memory.

They still eat meat yet many are violently anti Hunting.

They have the luxury to not soil their hands with the blood of which they eat. Modern day buying habits separate us from the necessary process in the food chain. From their viewpoint, whipping out a credit card and the food 'magically" appears. That's how they "hunt and gather"

The grunt work is done by people like us, we are 'neanderthals"

Children, I call them adult children who don't want to touch the icky stuff.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Molycorp was an REE mine in Mountain Pass CA. There was a downturn in REE prices and China ended up taking over the mine. China does not refine REEs here, too many environmental issues. They export the REEs to China and refine them there, dumping the resulting toxic waste who knows where?

There are REE mines in places like Australia, China, Brazil.

In the U.S. one of the biggest deposits of REEs (Niobium, Scandium, and Titanium) is --of all places--in Elk Falls NE, located in a "tube" left by an Asteroid strike. There are currently efforts to begin Mining the deposit. (Niocorp, NIOBF TSX. Niocorp.com)

Niobium and Scandium are alloy metals that can strengthen Steel and Aluminum and make them more resitant to corrosion. Aluminum can be made stronger with an increase to its melt point.

[BobL]

If the purpose of the Green Movement was to simply transform energy sources, but otherwise leave Western Culture untouched, this article would be significant.

But, hopefully, people by now understand the Green Movement a bit better*. So the proper response is “no surprise”, rather than “you dummies”.

*If not, I suggest you ask some of us what happened right around the year 1990.

[shanover]

The left is going full SOCIALIST. We better prepare to fight back.

[gattaca]

bmp

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 01/26/2019. Thanks ameribbean expat.

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