Mining Scruppies Unite

A new word: scruppies.  Defined as a socially conscious upwardly mobile person. 

They espouse causes that involve no support costs:

• A good scruppie decries the death of 500 ducks–it costs nothing to say how terrible it is and to demand action. 
• A good scuppie remains discretely silent about twenty people killed on the road between Edmonton and Fort McMurray—to do something means expenditure. 

It is only a short time before the mining industry feels the wrath of a legion of sruppies.  Let me know if you are first.  Or maybe they never will, for a truly honorable scruppie will sit back and enjoy the checks coming from the family inheritance, discretely invested in profitable mining?