Mining’s permanent pollution

[MineralMan]

5. Of course many of us care. I do, as well.

However, it continues. China is heavy with metal resources, and is heavily invested in mining them. Is it concerned with the pollution that mining causes? Not so much. But, we're more than happy to purchase the metals and products made from them.

Many people are concerned about this. Many others are not, which is my point. The demand for metals will be met. If mines in Peru are shut down, mining will move elsewhere, yet again.

How to stop it? Stop needing metals for manufacturing. Short of that, there will be mining somewhere, and it will be done as cheaply as possible. That's an inevitable fact, depressing as it is.