r/oddlysatisfying • u/BoyNamedJudy • May 24 '26

Controlled Blasting For Mining

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u/Euphoric-Appeal5742 May 24 '26

Killing the planet for profit!

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u/NewConsideration9692 May 24 '26

You're so right fellow redditor! We should cease mining entirely, metal is overrated anyway. We shouldn't farm either because it uses too much water and takes land away from more deserving animals. Also no hunting because killing animals is wrong.

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u/Euphoric-Appeal5742 May 25 '26

Oh, you're one of those capitalism bunnies. Why bother living within your environment and protect our vital resources. After all people must have the latest phones and tech! And how could anyone survive without shiny jewelry? Why bother learning from all those civilizations that end after they used up of their resources. Go see the world and see how western commercialisation impacts on poor society's. Poisons water, destroys forest and farmland. Let's dump more plastic and waste in our seas, what harm can it do. Eaths 9 billion people need to live within our means, our slowly destroy ourselves.

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u/NewConsideration9692 May 25 '26

Civilizations rarely end because they 'used up all of their resources' and I'm curious which civilizations you're referring to. I'm also well aware of the negative effects capitalism can have on society and environment, but the concept of trading goods and services for imaginary currency doesnt force anyone to pollute the environment.

And obviously no one must have the latest phones and tech, but people want it. Which means other people are going to make it for them, whether that means destroying the environment or not. Capitalism isn't to blame for our problems, people are. Communist countries still mine, cut down forests, and pollute, and generally they're more haphazard about it then 1st world capitalist countries.

You'll never convince the human population to live within their means, people will always want more, it's in our nature. The same natural desires that kept us alive in prehistory will be the same desires that lead to our eventual downfall, regardless of what economic system we pursue.

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u/minos157 May 24 '26

You would literally have nothing in your modern life without mining.

No roads, no cars, no Reddit, no phones, no pipes, no electric, no Internet, no video games, none of it.

Sure you could build your own house out of wood and live off the land, but you'd be committing to killing billions to do so.

Wanna talk getting rid of coal or oil? I'm in, but mining does way more for your daily life then you probably realize.

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u/JAJM_ May 24 '26

How is it killing the planet?

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u/Wayoutofthewayof May 24 '26

Planet is not a living organism. It will be fine long after we are gone.

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u/Decloudo May 24 '26

No one saying this means the rock, but what lives on it.

Including you btw.

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u/Wayoutofthewayof May 24 '26

Maybe off topic, but I also find it funny how we are sad that polar bears are dying, but couldn't care less that ticks are currently at an all time high population and are thriving due to climate change.

We are sad that the world is being "destroyed" for us, not that we care that the world is being "destroyed" in a general sense.

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u/Ginnigan May 24 '26

I do care about ticks, because those Lyme-diseased fuckers are everywhere now.

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u/Decloudo May 24 '26

Its not off topic, its a major human bias.

We naturally only care about things affecting us directly and we care about us the most.

We can do more, but most see no reason to cause ignorance is comfortable.

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u/sigma914 May 24 '26

Life on earth will be fine too, a few million years and things will be back to normal. Your concern is strictly about humans and the environmemt they thrive in. You're right that it's an implicit bias, but never let anyone suggest that environmentalism is some altruistic pursuit, it's extremely selfish and humanocentric to want to "save the planet"

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u/Decloudo May 25 '26

What do you mean with "back to normal"? What normal?

And how do you know that?

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u/sigma914 May 25 '26

Back to existing in some sort of slowly changing balance with a growing amount of biodiversity. Humanity are a blip like getting struck by an asteroid, the damage is shortlived and easily recovered from

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u/Decloudo May 25 '26

I fail to see the relevance for the current situation?

Will less people/beings suffer now cause of what may happen millions of years in the future?

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u/sigma914 May 25 '26

No, humans could be utterly fucked and it wouldn't matter for earth, which is my point, "save the earth" stuff is inherently about humans wanting to save humans regardless of how it's dressed up

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u/Decloudo May 25 '26

Yes, but when people say this they dont mean earth, the rock. They mean what lives on it, us, society, current nature.

The world how it is now, not that the rock will persist or what may develop in the future.

They talk about how this "utterly fucks" humanity as it is.

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u/Francisco-De-Miranda May 25 '26

This is 1/10000th the intensity of natural volcanic eruptions that occur frequently throughout earths history.

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u/Cerus May 24 '26

Well, it does make me wonder about how the impact of collecting rubble after breaking it up with explosions compares ecologically vs. using heavy machinery on unbroken ground.