What cannot be grown must be mined. Look around the space you're sitting in and ask yourself where your "stuff" came from. The computer you're using, for example. Oil, hundreds of different minerals, electricity provided by diesel, coal or natural gas.

Mining makes our modern world possible. It provides good-paying long-term jobs. And it can be done in an environmentally-sensitive way.

But you're rather not risk it, so -- well, just start subtracting the stuff around you that comes from mining. Does your modern lifestyle still exist? You no longer have a refrigerator, but if you did, you'd notice that there's no food in it, because that modern food you eat requires fertilizer which is mined and fuel to transport it to you, which is mined.

Pretty soon you're starving in the dark with no stuff to keep you warm.

Remember, what cannot be grown must be mined and even fishing depends on mining.

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