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Devastating risks of transitioning to 'green' energy: Mining for electric-powering minerals has left 23 million people exposed to toxic waste, 500,000km of rivers polluted and 16 million acres of farmland ruined (only 7.35 years left)
Daily Mail ^ | 9/21/23 | Matthew Phelan

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: butitsgreen; demonicplan; farmland; green; mining; pollution
Drilling looks pretty good right about now.
1 posted on 09/22/2023 1:31:47 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

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.


2 posted on 09/22/2023 1:40:18 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Libloather

The mindset is: It’s not happening in MY neighborhood, so I don’t care.


3 posted on 09/22/2023 1:58:57 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Libloather

Destroying the earth to “save the planet “


4 posted on 09/22/2023 2:08:21 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Libloather

Duh, only stupid lefties overlook the obvious.


5 posted on 09/22/2023 2:21:37 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Libloather

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.


6 posted on 09/22/2023 2:42:27 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Libloather

Windmills require balsa wood which is mostly found in the Brazilian rain forest so yes, destroying the planet to save it


7 posted on 09/22/2023 3:01:34 AM PDT by albie
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To: Libloather

Greenies are phonies.


8 posted on 09/22/2023 3:08:29 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Libloather
These pics are dated but still show what those mines look like.


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

9 posted on 09/22/2023 3:19:56 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

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!


10 posted on 09/22/2023 3:53:35 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
The Liberal mindset is: It’s not happening in MY neighborhood, so I don’t care.
11 posted on 09/22/2023 4:04:47 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: Libloather

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12 posted on 09/22/2023 5:27:44 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Libloather

Environmentalists have always been an environmental disaster


13 posted on 09/22/2023 6:05:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Bttt


14 posted on 09/22/2023 6:09:57 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Libloather

Drivelous propaganda

The problem will be solved if the envirowackos are gone


15 posted on 09/22/2023 6:09:59 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: Libloather

Pish, Posh. Eggs must be broken and all that.


16 posted on 09/22/2023 6:28:56 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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