This is very real and has been an issue for years. I remember when I was younger, watching public TV, and I saw a news report about an elderly lady who was forced to sell her home along with the rest of her village so that they could dig up the entire area for coal. At the time it was a big deal, because she took so long to agree, which got media attention. It was incredibly depressing. It felt dystopian.
ok I hate coal and fossil fuels, but this thing is so cool
Being destroyed by a giant machine is terrible but it did file the proper paperwork first so what can be done at this point?
There’s a lot to be said about dotted eyes and crossed teas.
Just enjoy the hyperspace bypass, I expect.
I hate so much how accurate this is as a metaphor for how many politicians deal with the fascist AfD.
It is an engineering marvel, indeed, as it is the biggest mobile machine of the world.
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We make logging companies “replant forests” (yes it’s not at all the same as the old growth but it’s something). Why do we let mining companies completely rape the land and replace nothing? It doesn’t even look like they backfill with the unused debris, much less restore topsoil or plant anything.
Why do we let mining companies completely rape the land and replace nothing?
The government spend billions to brainwash people and turn them complicit. Check out the “germany rearming” threads to see how even on lemmy plenty of people are happy with the raping.
There are time lapses of this machines movement from satellite / aerial photography and you will see that the soil becomes green again.
Wait until you hear about mercury contamination from gold mining practices
Where I live they are required to rehabilitate the land afterwards, but usually that’s after the mine has been running for like 30+ years and by the time they shut down, they do some weird financial trickery and declare bankruptcy despite having made millions in profits the previous decades and then they just walk away and tax payers need to clean up.
Honestly, that’s on the government for not either levying the industry, or making them set up a fund to pay for that.
Tbh there is a lot done do make the Land usable once the mining process is through
Check out what they did/are doing with the Eden Project and it’s successors.
Here in the UK I know of lots of old mines and quarries that, because the ground is inherently unstable once the mining has finished, the land gets reclaimed as a nature reserve. Think nice walks, wildflowers, native trees, marshlands etc. A lot of effort goes into making habitats for insects, birds and animals.
Whether or not it is all paid for by the mining companies, I don’t know.
That’s how we do it here in the US if they’re operating near an urban area. My understanding is that they are required by law to do that in exchange for the permits or something.
Only if the city cares. I’m in a capital city where strip mining occurs within city limits, and they just leave acid pools behind because the thick forests keep people from noticing it
It isn’t. I guarantee it.
It’s a man-made Langolier… slowly eating a dying world no one wants.
Bagger 288! Bagger 288!
BAGGER 288 BAGGER 288
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Looks like a Final Fantasy optional boss.
I love how I know the name Bagger 288 because of a 16 year old meme
Removed from the environment.
Why remove something from the environment when you can just remove the environment
It’s like a giant Meccano set.
Funny and sad
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Just as well. 'tis a silly place.
