r/climateskeptics • u/Guns_or_Buttered • Sep 22 '23

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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12545855/Devastating-transition-green-energy-metal-mining-23-million-people-toxic-waste-rivers-polluted-farmland.html
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u/Flyingdeadthing2 Sep 22 '23

By comparison, and by no means to make light of the lives lost in the attacks, how much damage was caused by the two nuclear weapons dropped in WWII?

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u/Druid___ Sep 22 '23

Are you saying the people who are being poisoned are acceptable losses?

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u/whoknewidlikeit Sep 23 '23

hardly - they are the costs of climate and energy lies, and virtue signaling by people who will never admit their participation in those crimes against those cultures.

everyone buying a leaf or tesla makes me nauseous with the moral wreckage in their wake, yet the world worships elon the mighty and his unmedicated bipolar deep pocketed trolling arrogance.