People eagerly fund wealthy environmental organizations. The Natural Resources Defense Council has assets of $463 million.
It claims to be using the law “to combat the climate crisis.”
What they're actually doing is paying lawyers to torture people who are trying to do something useful.
Example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. President Joe Biden too gave a speech The US says it will need 400 to 600 percent more minerals to make things like “solar panels and wind turbines.”
The iPhone alone requires aluminum, iron, lithium, gold, copper, and more.
However, if investors dare to mine such minerals in the United States, NRDC Oppose it and use your political connections to stop it.
Twenty years ago, entrepreneurs tried to open a mine in Alaska. Before receiving your application, EPA vetoed this..
why? That's because groups like NRDC argue that the mine “would pose a devastating threat to wildlife and fragile ecosystems.”
When Democrats run the EPA, they not only support NRDC's position; Even if I hire you NRDC employee.
The next Republican administration overrode the EPA veto. The Army Corps of Engineers subsequently investigated the mine and concluded it was not a threat to the environment.
So, is Pebble still an active mine today?No.
The Democratic Party was elected exercised the veto again.
Physicist Mark Mills wonders why anyone would open a mine in America today. “Why risk millions or even billions of dollars and spend decades trying to get a permit when you know there is a very good chance it will be revoked? ?How on earth do you build a mine in America, knowing that this is the landscape right in front of you?”
Well, that's not true.
The United States currently ranks second to last for the amount of time it takes to develop a new mine, at about 29 years. Only Zambia is worse.
“Once you start applying for permits, you're waiting not just months or years, but decades,” Mills says.
We're waiting for NRDC to file a lawsuit and run a horrifying anti-landmine ad that says, “Nature is being destroyed by a 600-foot gaping hole in the ground!”
Mills points out their deception. Today's mines are disturbing “tiny infinity needles in the landscape,” and we need to disturb the landscape a little. Because “we need metals and materials and minerals to build everything that exists to make society possible!”
I argued with NRDC Spokesman Bob Deans that NRDC's mine destruction also deprives people of opportunity. He responded that “clean” energy creates jobs.
“We've created 50,000 new jobs in this country by installing wind turbines, solar panels, and building the next generation of energy-efficient cars. This is the future!”
“But we also need copper and gold,” I point out.
“That's right,” Deans says. “And we have to weigh those risks.”
However, NRDC does not consider the risks. They're just against American landmines.
I asked Deans, “Are there any landmines that NRDC doesn't complain about?”
“Of course,” he answered.
He said he would send us some names. But he never did.
I asked you another question this month. Again, no name.
“Don't hold your breath,” says Mills. “The mines that they tacitly support are in Africa.”
I say “implicitly” because it doesn't actually say that mining should take place in poor countries.
“They don't say that,” Mills says. “But the environmental movement is perfectly content to outsource mining to disadvantaged countries, where thousands of children dig minerals out of the ground by hand, barefoot and with shovels.”
At least in America, children won't be digging by hand, advanced equipment will make mining safer, and our rules will reduce pollution. You'd think environmentalists would like to see more mining done in America.
“We need to do more to create a healthier world,” Mills said. Not all. But that doesn't mean there aren't any. ”
Allowing America to do more would definitely be a good thing. Our future requires minerals.
“Society cannot exist without landmines,” Mills concludes.
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