You’re kidding: mining the opposition for art
The Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining has three great posters. I downloaded and printed one and now it hangs in my office.
Maybe it is not great art. It comes from a site that supposedly is in opposition to mining. But there is a silly appeal about this and the other two posters that make them irresistible wall art. With high-quality color printers, my hanging looks like an expensive print from on of those fancy art shops.
If pew art does not take your fancy, you can still take a look at the Pew website. They really have a thing about the 1872 Mining Law and base their claim that it should be changed on scare tactics about mining the Grand Canyon and gobbling up pretty mining towns in the west.
The surprise to me is how slowly and thoroughly the US Congress and Senate are being about this one. Or are they merely caught between conflicting sides and hoping it will go away with the coming of a new president? No matter as long as folk turn out nice things to hang on the wall along the way.
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There is as much FUD in this pathetic effort as there has been in all the past efforts, and it would take a monograph to explain in detail why each claim is without basis. However, that would be a waste of our time and efforts
The Pew Center, along with the Mineral Policy Center (I think they now call themselves “Earthwatch,”) and the other organized components of the Chicken Little Society don’t care about the facts. Their business is to scare ignorant and naive people into sending money to support the employees of these groups. If they got all the change they demand, they’d be out of business and would have to actually contribute a good or service for their money.
But, groups such as the Pew Center either know they’re spewing nonsense, and cynically and hypocritically don’t care as long as the money pours in, or they are equally naive and ignorant as those they seek to milk. I have great difficulty believing that it’s the latter case.
Groups such as this one remind me of the narrow minded folks who used to protest logging in western Oregon forests by building wooden platforms in the trees and sitting on them to protest cutting trees to be milled into lumber.
I don’t recall who said the following, but it’s certainly applicable to those who support the professionals running the Chicken Little Society: “While there are definite limits to genius, there are no such constraints on stupidity.” Based on the dreck on the Pew Center’s website, they should consider changing the spelling to Pwew.
Rich
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