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HHM. You seem to be torn between the desire to propagate in a commercial way and the damage that you believe you are doing to the environment. Destruction of the environment is not a good thing but not for the environment's sake but for humans sake. The environment ( earth ) was full of caustic and hazardous places and situations before humans arrived and will be so after we are gone. The point then is to save the humans from being gone and that is not going to happen. The Earth is going to shake humans off of it like a like a dog shaking off water. The Earth will go on its natural pand nothing we ever did will be apparent after time has elapsed.
No I don't believe it should be a total free for all. There is no such thing as free. Everything has a price or a consequence. As for the amount of mining I do there is little to no impact. If you multiplied it a million times there would be more impact but not much. The deal is there is not going to be a million times more episodes of the type of mining I do. Yet some government entities have enacted rules to reduce my exposure under the guise of harm. In my state a lot of people claim to be for the environment but will not do even the simplest things. I drive a full sized pickup and it gets about 16 mpg in town. That's 16 mpg if I ease off the line and keep my foot out of it. I see most people who because they have a small fuel efficient car, any make or model goes here fly off the line at the stoplight and use lead foot acceleration in every aspect of there driving. If I drove that way I would get 5 mpg. It is great that they bought fuel efficient cars but the true benefit to all would be if they would ease up on the pedal. Multiple that by 30 million cars in this state and the savings in multiple areas would be huge. A great many of the people I would guess would not like to see me mining in any capacity.
No I don't believe it should be a total free for all. There is no such thing as free. Everything has a price or a consequence. As for the amount of mining I do there is little to no impact. If you multiplied it a million times there would be more impact but not much. The deal is there is not going to be a million times more episodes of the type of mining I do. Yet some government entities have enacted rules to reduce my exposure under the guise of harm. In my state a lot of people claim to be for the environment but will not do even the simplest things. I drive a full sized pickup and it gets about 16 mpg in town. That's 16 mpg if I ease off the line and keep my foot out of it. I see most people who because they have a small fuel efficient car, any make or model goes here fly off the line at the stoplight and use lead foot acceleration in every aspect of there driving. If I drove that way I would get 5 mpg. It is great that they bought fuel efficient cars but the true benefit to all would be if they would ease up on the pedal. Multiple that by 30 million cars in this state and the savings in multiple areas would be huge. A great many of the people I would guess would not like to see me mining in any capacity.
I appreciate your sentiments here. In my metro Denver county, there is a big push to ban hydraulic fracking. The other day I had someone come knocking, asking that I sign a petition to that effect. I told them to come back when the petition included a similar commitment to reduce oil consumption. Got nothing but a blank stare from this brain dead housewife as she hopped into a 12 ft-long Denali to drive back to one of the gaudy 10000 ft2+ homes that now litter the hillsides.