'..........Yes to Mining, woodchip the trees, strip the topsoil, plunder the earth, build high density apartments there, move to the next area..........'

There's a chance he's being sarcastic.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2016 at 12:30am:




havent we been there and done that?....

mind you if they think I am going to give up anything that I have benefitted from the world doing all that

they have another think coming...

Emma wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2016 at 8:16am:


hummmm..

mining also means sand which makes cement which built my house...

and built that hospital and that school and that road and that church .. it also produced the copper that makes the pipes and the ore that makes the steel.....that makes the cars and the planes and the trains......and.and.and..


its never ending actually. I have gained much.

Emma wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2016 at 8:51am:



not at all.. but coal didnt build my home... not as far as I know.. and yes we are very beholden to coal......

you probably are not aware... it was thanks to coal your car is made of steel.... I dont have a problem with coal or mining for that matter...

we have come a long way since the 1900.....and its all far more modern and clean...I find people more dirty than machines to be honest....

I also believe Mother Nature is having a laugh at us thinking we can break her....

but thats just me...

I am grateful for everything I have....if climate is changing its because it always has changed....we ADAPT...cave men were covered ion hair.... ..


but to each his own..

I take it you are not grateful for what mining has given you?>

cods wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2016 at 9:28am:


No Cods, it is Mother Nature that WILL BREAK US.

Mining is just servicing people.

You need to look at the root cause.

Stop squirting out babies.

The world needs to depopulate, or put up with more degradation.

Australia and every other country should set a population target at about half todays population

You seem to forget that humans are part of the ecology of the earth. We are not removed from it. If the human psyche is producing ways, like the internet, to remove many many people from the reality of their surroundings, as you say, Cods, then it is in all seriousness a function of nature.
Mother Earth is throwing everything at us to de-populate this world, from storms, to the Internet. You see , much as we might ignore it, we are of the Earth. What we do is part of the whole ecology... and when cancers arise, the body of our mother takes every opportunity to attack it. The fact that we mainly live in giant 'hives', and that our workers and procreators are choosing to go AWOL.. is just another example of how our demise approaches. We are not superior beings who can do as we will, and when such abnormality as  massive overpopulation in a particular species comes up, Mother takes whatever steps are necessary.  Like drought and starvation for example.  Lets face it, the Earth will be here long after WE have disappeared, regardless of our grandiose beliefs in our own invincibility.