>>2122360necessary evil that should be heavily overseen to avoid large environmental damage. Its usually the jews pinching pennies that do the damage. fresh diggings create acidic pools when exposed to water, open air mines destroy huge areas because of the nature of running an open air mine, all that fill has to go somewhere else. Entire mountains get destroyed for metals.
I think they could do better, but the people running them tend to be greedy fuck bags, the political fuck bags lobby for horrible policies, and any collateral damage is just a number.
I think many can be repurposed or retired into fun out places to explore. instead they're usually off limits.
Rehabilitation of an area is usually just optics, they replace monocultures instead of ecosystems.
They process product in the most cost effective manner regardless of the amount of waste it producess.
Th industry as a whole could use permacultlure and holistic management techniques to turn waste into productive materials.
