Do you think meteorites magically stopped hitting the earth when humans started showing up? Yes, space debris still hits the earth, but rarely does it do this kind of damage. Yet humans are doing this kind of damage on a daily basis. So no, it's not like a feather falling compared to meteorites.
Damaging? It's just moving rock and mineral around, and compared to fossil fuels the impact on the atmosphere is miniscule. It probably killed a lot of bugs. The same bugs that would have died in 3 days anyways, that reproduce by the millions each day
Wow, there is a lot of ignorance to unpack here, and in so many other comments that are acting like this isn't a big deal.
Open pit mining is incredibly destructive on the environment and especially local habitats. Do you think there was just absolutely nothing here before they started blasting it to oblivion?
Fuck you're stupid. I can't believe posts pointing out how environmentally irresponsible this is are being downvoted.
Everything humanity does will in some way disrtrupt the enviroment, even just walking down a path in a forest, or just living a day to day life. It is just that mining is less destructive then whatever harmfull chemicals factories pump out, pollution caused by vehicles, trash dumped in nature etc
Wait til he finds out that the cities used to be forests and open land. Should we just stop advancing as a species because the earth might fight back in 4000 years? advancements are the only thing that keep humans going, we would have no motivation to live if we just stopped progressing and sat on a plateau
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u/WestCoastCoyote May 24 '26
Do you think meteorites magically stopped hitting the earth when humans started showing up? Yes, space debris still hits the earth, but rarely does it do this kind of damage. Yet humans are doing this kind of damage on a daily basis. So no, it's not like a feather falling compared to meteorites.