Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Nothing but lazy excuses by the absolute lassie-faire boomers who popularized these arguments, to begin with.
Ever heard of environmental mitigation protocol?
Messy or not messy, near indigenous communities, or not, there have already been proven to be very sound ways of responsibly and ethically carrying out such operations, without unintentionally harming the communities around them.
The Eagle Mine that has been operating since 2014 in Minnesota as the states first, and so far, only nickel mine is a perfect example. Look it up, read about it, and then get back to me.
I am absolutely beyond done with inconsistent, bad faith excuses by the administration, establishment, Dems, liberals, and leftists for this. And it’s frankly not helping any of you guys’ arguments by outright parroting them.
I’ve heard them all before, and in the end, if somehow, we are to actually care about the security risks caused by importing materials from China, in good faith, then we need to come to an understanding that consistently stopping short of actually mining these materials in our own country because of environmental issues is not a solution that works in practice.
This is precisely one of the very things that actually drives people to the GOP, by the way. And if you don’t want them to do so, then the Dems need to stop falling back on such weak excuses.
You want the public and the transportation sectors to ween itself off of big oil? Then get over these bullshit counterproductive, dual-allegiance apprehensions and actually mine these damn materials in this country, regardless of what those those terminally idiotic and bad faith-driven environmentalists and government appointees think. Screw them to hell and back.