{"id":49316,"date":"2019-10-31T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49316"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:06:59","slug":"a-mining-explosion-the-dirty-little-secret-of-the-green-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49316","title":{"rendered":"A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Metals\/Commodities\/A-Mining-Explosion-The-Dirty-Little-Secret-Of-The-Green-Revolution.html\">A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/718x300\/5fb55f781c4965e26e91a3f12d108d19.jpg\" alt=\"Mining Explosion\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leftwing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages total, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s rapid ascent to acronym status and anointing as the queen of green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to her How Dare You tour, 16-year old Greta Thunberg is now the undisputed leader of the growing ranks of school-bunking climate crisis warriors all over the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greta show arrived in MINING.COM\u2019s hometown of Vancouver last week to take&nbsp;Make-Love-Not-CO2 youths (and second-life hippies) on yet another march and bridge-blockade. The footslogging Greta groupies are beginning to resemble the disastrous 1212 children\u2019s crusade \u2013 with higher ground now doing service for holy land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the response to AOC and Thunberg (who seem to get on like a house on fire if the Guardian is to be believed) on the right has been mocking and dismissive, accusing the pair of swapping hamburgers for pie in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a mistake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Red turns green<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some estimates put the green economy in the US at $1.3 trillion in annual revenue already \u2013 that\u2019s 7 percent of GDP \u2013 with a workforce of 9.5m Americans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the Green New Deal is a goal of \u201cmeeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources\u201d.&nbsp; AOC has no deadline of course, but no doubt Greta would want that for the whole world before she hits drinking age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A seminal paper by Bernstein\u2019s European mining and metals team led by Paul Gait outlines just how fundamental a restructure of the global industrial economy is necessary to bring this \u2013 or even a fraction of this \u2013 about.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And all of it to the great benefit of mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution Leftwing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages total, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s rapid ascent to acronym status and anointing as the queen of green. 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