“Current mining operations have now become their own geological force, scraping, sorting and collecting more dirt, rock and sediment than the world’s rivers, wind, rain and glaciers every year.”
– Canadian journalist
Andrew Nikiforuk, citing British geologist and
Extraction to Extinction (2021) author David Howe in a scathing critique of the extractivism-powered “green techno-dream.” If continued, he writes, “the pile of human mined materials on this groaning planet will triple global biomass by 2040.”
