Posted on 09/22/2023 1:31:47 AM PDT by Libloather
Tens of millions of people — more than live in the entire state of Florida — are now exposed to toxic water runoff from metal mining, a new study has found.
The report lays bare the devastating impacts that can follow a reckless transition to 'green' energy, compounding the ecological damage wrought by over 150 years of drilling and mining for fossil fuels.
The researchers found that 23 million people worldwide, as well as 5.72 million in livestock, over 16 million acres of irrigated farmland and over 297,800 miles worth of rivers have been contaminated by mining's toxic byproducts seeping into the water.
This metal mining includes many so-called 'rare earth elements' essential to the manufacture of high-tech electronics, solar cells, wind turbines and all the batteries needed to store sustainable 'green' energy (and power electric cars and iPhones).
While the new study focuses on environmental impacts, global metals mining has recently faced shocking lawsuits against major tech firms, including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Tesla, over child slavery in the Congo, where 70 percent of the industry's cobalt is sourced.
'Rapid growth in global metal mining is crucial if the world is to make the transition to green energy,' noted Chris Thomas, a zoologist at the University of Lincoln whose specialty is in spatial ecology and threats to the global water supply.
Thomas led the analysis and modelling work for the new study, which was published today in Science.
Thomas and his colleagues have developed a new database, supported by on-the-ground testing, which now maps the hundreds of square miles' worth of rivers and floodplains contaminated by these industrial processes across the globe.
The devastation wrought by this contamination, they found, was widespread, affecting approximately 297,800 miles (479,200 km) of river systems total and over 63,000 square-miles (164,000 sq-km) of...
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proof positive that electric vehicles not only burn down structures but are also deadly to people. I’m sure there will be a vaccine for that soon. bill gates is smiling.
The mindset is: It’s not happening in MY neighborhood, so I don’t care.
Destroying the earth to “save the planet “
Duh, only stupid lefties overlook the obvious.
Latest leftist’s’ quotable. “ You’All can’t build a nuclear power plant, we will charge EVs at night when we aren’t using electricity”. It makes perfect sense to a brain dead leftists.
Windmills require balsa wood which is mostly found in the Brazilian rain forest so yes, destroying the planet to save it
Greenies are phonies.
The Bayan Obo mine, which contains rare earth
minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China, in July 2011.
Labourers work at the site of a rare earth metals
mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province, China
A former rare earth mining site in Longnan county,
Jiangxi province, China
Yes,
Brandon is successfully banning mining in the USA.
He banned Oak Flat mine in AZ, the biggest, richest deposit of Copper in the whole word.
Mountain Pass CA is the world largest deposit of rare earth. They were closed, and now lingering somewhere in limbo.
That just two examples.
We are just shipping mining abroad, thanks Brandon!
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Environmentalists have always been an environmental disaster
Bttt
Drivelous propaganda
The problem will be solved if the envirowackos are gone
Pish, Posh. Eggs must be broken and all that.
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