Submitted by: aka.attrition
Source: John Lee Pettimore
Below is a Twitter thread by retired miner of 40 years, John Lee Pettimore. In a few short tweets he shows the disaster that the pursuit of “green energy” is creating for the world, for you, for our children. I have unrolled it here to make it easy to read.
As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I'm going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of "Green Energy" Follow along and I will explain. 🧵
— John Lee Pettimore (@JohnLeePettim13) January 14, 2023
MiningWatch Canada is estimating that “[Three] billion tons of mined metals and minerals will be needed to power the energy transition” – a “massive” increase especially for six critical minerals: lithium, graphite, copper, cobalt, nickel and rare earth minerals
Over the next 30 years 7.5 billion of us, we will consume more minerals than the last 70,000 years or the past 500 generations, which is more than all of the 108 billion humans who have ever walked the Earth.
Mining requires the extraction of solid ores, often after removing vast amounts of overlying rock. Then the ore must be processed, creating an enormous quantity of waste – about 100 billion tonnes a year, more than any other human-made waste stream.
Purifying a single tonne of rare earths requires using at least 200 cubic meters of water, which then becomes polluted with acids and heavy metals. On top of that, imagine the destruction and energy required to obtain these essential metals:
18,740 pounds of purified rock to produce 2.2 pounds of vanadium 35,275 pounds of ore for 2.2 pounds of cerium 110,230 pounds of rock for 2.2 pounds of gallium 2,645,550 pounds of ore to get 2.2 pounds of lutecium Also staggering amounts of ore are needed for other metals.
By 2035, demand is expected to double for germanium; quadruple for tantalum; and quintuple for palladium. The scandium market could increase nine-fold, and the cobalt market by a factor of 24. (Marscheider-Wiedemann 2016 ‘raw materials for emerging technologies’.
The potential demand for rare metals is exponential. We are already consuming over two billion tonnes of metals every year — the equivalent of more than 500 Eiffel Towers a day.
There is nothing refined about mining. It involves crushing rock, and then using a concoction of chemical reagents such as sulphuric and nitric acid, a long and highly repetitive process using many different procedures to obtain a rare-earth concentrate close to 100% purity.
As rare metals have become ubiquitous in green and digital technologies, the exceedingly toxic sludge they produce has been contaminating water, soil, the atmosphere, and the flames of blast furnaces.
Do you think solar panels are “Green” Think again. There is nothing green about solar panels. Did you know we clear cut forests, not for panel placement but for the wood needed to produce the panels. Don’t believe me, have a read.
I have seen the destruction of mountains, lakes and pristine waterways all in the name of #GreenEnergy. A recent report by the Blacksmith Institute identifies the mining industry as the second-most-polluting industry in the world. Soon to be Number # 1 Why? Green energy.
Green’ technologies require the use of rare minerals whose mining is anything but clean. Heavy metal discharges, acid rain, and contaminated water sources — it borders on being an environmental disaster. Put simply, clean energy is a dirty affair.
Wind turbines guzzle more raw materials than previous technologies: ‘For an equivalent installed capacity, solar and wind facilities require up to 15 times more concrete, 90 times more aluminum, and 50 times more iron, copper, and glass than fossil fuels or nuclear energy.
Think of China. One-fifth of China’s arable land is polluted from mining and industry. Mining the materials needed for renewable energy potentially affects 50 million square kilometers, 37% of Earth’s land (minus Antarctica). Now imagine that number 10 fold.
If you’ve gotten this far still believing that renewables are clean and green, well, I have a bridge to sell you. We thought we could free ourselves from the shortages, tensions, and crises created by our appetite for oil and coal.
Instead, we are replacing these with an era of new and unprecedented shortages, tensions, and crises.
“15 times more concrete.”
After energy and transportation, cement manufacture is the greatest man made source of …..
CO2.
Being there is NO new CARBON & OXYGEN, they are “elements & are in equilibrium”, then I ask why should anyone give to hoots in hell about any of this green shit? Not to mention if any one individual or group of individuals have this kind of power to make new elements, why haven’t they found a new rock to fuckup or live on? Just asking for a friend.
Because MPAI.
CO2 is not a pollutant.
BINGO!
It is a nutrient.
It feeds plants, and plants feed us oxygen. Fair trade.
Beat that, fugnorant, schizo leftards.
If carbon didn’t cycle, none of us would be here. The idiocy comes from people being stupid enough to believe oil comes from biological sources. The only way that can be true is if it is a microbes directly produce it, the other possibility is geological process. Either or both means it is not a finite resource.
What possible money interests would want to spread that information around?
A study by researchers in German 2 or 3 years ago stated that the increases in CO2 in recent years has produced a 14% increase in plant growth across the globe …
AKA dynamic equilibrium.
I used to drive a ready mix truck for a company that produced the concrete that I delivered to customers.
At one point early on in my time with them, I put their name into a search engine … about 95% of the results had to do with the enormous numbers of lawsuits against the company, and most of them were from state and federal environmental regulators.
The water pollution alone was enormous … and the situation is especially aggravated by the demand for clean, pure water for making concrete … you can’t use sewer water …
And all these smug cunts with their electric cars are fully convinced that they alone are “saving the planet”
Climate engineering and carbon dioxide capture will have similar catastrophic outcomes for mankind which is the goal.
So cue the clot shots to eliminate all the excess, useless ‘consumers’ of stuff and voila! Solution to the problem
Is that the same John Lee Pettimore from ‘Copper Head Road’? Sorry…I had to!
Yup, first thing I noticed
Me too. We’re taking environmental advice from the scion of bootleggers now…not that there’s anything wrong with that. Just sayin’ illegal shine operations have a pretty big carbon footprint.
MAKING MOONSHINE IS DESTROYING THE EARTH ??? DANG, I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO SHUT MY STILL DOWN NOW.
To say nothing about the Pb angle.
My wife was commenting on this before we found your comment.
I willingly concede the fact that I didn’t think of it first…mainly due to the fact that I didn’t SEE it first. It was too glaringly obvious not to comment on, and all have been good so far.
My point was simply that it’s a cool song we all know.
I think we can agree that it’s not about saving the planet. They don’t give 2 shits about the planet.
They do love us, though . . .
/s
Only when cooked properly.
But when the sun comes up the love is gone.
Stop fucking vampires if you don’t like it.
Here’s the thing; the globalists have no plans of having close to 8 billion people using “green energy”. They plan on having around 500 million in compact cities around the world using green energy or more likely conventional energy sources that we have now. The other 7.5 billion people — they want the rest DEAD.
And only those with sufficient social credit scores.
Shouldn’t we be talking about the children?
What children? Whenever the vax doesn’t prevent them via sterility, it kills them outright:
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/yesterday-a-vaccinated-8-year-old – Video: https://bomperfil.com/posts/3731480
You forgot the 65,000,000 that have been aborted in the US the past 50 years …
Given the tolerance for that phenomenon, is anyone really all that surprised that the CDC and FDA are fine with the 1,500,000+ deaths from the jab — and that most of the people are going along with it?
The same radical left that has pushed for abortion rights up to and even past birth is populated by many of the same folks pushing this green agenda … as well as the eugenicist aspects of the jabs.
We the People should be having talks & deciding on what to do with the individuals that have planned and implemented this mass genocide on humanity. You want to save the children, start there.
Govts, WEF, NGOs, etc are making it easy. Whatever they want is the opposite of what we need and should be doing.
Thanks!
Said that for a quite a while-take the opposite view of what is being rammed down our throats (and up our assholes) and do the opposite. Take the rest of the day off and enjoy yourself.
The Earth will survive what humans do to it. The humans will survive what they do to the Earth as well, though there will be a lot fewer of them. They will be scattered and less technologically advanced than they are now. They will stop green shit and emphasize surviving until tomorrow.
We are at the inflection point where technology is working against us, or at least is being used to work against us.
Had to happen sometime.