Biden Ought to Assist Clear Up The Unique Mining Tragedy Of Creating Nations – Watts Up With That?
The enormous sums of money allocated to the sun and wind – and the infinite extensions to tax credits for them – show that energy policies in Washington and California continue to support environmental degradation and atrocities committed by humanity in the countries that supply exotic minerals and the country Metals used to support wind turbines, solar panels and EV batteries.
By Ronald Stein
Ambassador for Energy and Infrastructure, Irvine, California
Reducing American emissions is a primary goal of President Elect Biden’s platform, but it should not be implemented by passing environmental degradation and atrocities of humanity on to foreign countries that provide exotic minerals and metals in support of green electricity. Biden has the opportunity to follow the example of United Nations and Amnesty International because efforts to achieve net zero emissions cannot be based on human rights violations or non-existent environmental regulations abroad.
Biden’s “War on Pollution” requires global supply chain transparency as well as environmental and occupational safety laws and standards to control the environmental degradation and atrocities of humanity caused worldwide by the overseas mining that dominates the supply chain of exotic minerals and Metals used in support of wind turbines, solar panels, and the construction of electric vehicle batteries.
The downside of renewable wind, solar, EV batteries and biofuels is that they are not clean, environmentally friendly, renewable or sustainable. They are terribly destructive abroad to their vital ecological values, which will last for generations.
At the end of the life of wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries, Biden has the option to apply for decommissioning, restoration, and recycling standards overseas to the last dandelion, just like a disused mine. Oil or nuclear sites in America.
Climate change remains one of the most serious threats to the integrity of life on earth. But we still need empathy for the compromise to eliminate fossil fuels too quickly as it allows continuation of 11 million children die worldwide every year. These deaths are due to the preventable causes of diarrhea, malaria, newborn infection, pneumonia, premature birth, or lack of oxygen at birth, as many developing countries have minimal or no access to the thousands of oil-derived products that the rich and healthy countries have.
Biden can share with the world that it is necessary to understand that energy is more than intermittent electricity from wind and sun. Since the discovery of the versatility of petroleum derivatives products and the beginning of the manufacture and assembly of automobiles, trucks, airplanes, and military equipment in the early 20th century, the world has had nearly 200 years to replace clones or generic drugs for the crude oil derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products these are the foundations for lifestyles and economies around the world.
The social needs of our materialistic societies, both in states and around the world, will most likely persist for continuous, uninterrupted and reliable power generation from coal, natural gas or nuclear power to back up intermittent renewable energies and all of those chemical derivatives made of crude oil that make everything a part of our daily life and economy.
The key to prosperity and prosperity is continued access to thousands of oil-derived products and reliable, continuous, uninterruptible, and affordable electricity. The “unreliable” ones, wind and sun, threaten both prosperity and prosperity.
America has only about four percent of the world’s population (330 million versus 8 billion). Biden knows that oil and gas isn’t just an American business 135 refineries in the US. but an international industry with more than 700 refineries worldwide this serves the needs of the 8 billion who live on earth.
The unintended consequences of Biden’s goal of getting rid of fossil fuels in America by 2050 are that the fuels and products will be imported from overseas locations where environmental controls are significantly less stringent. This plan will work, but at a higher cost to the American consumer, and could put America at national security risk as the products and fuels for the American economy increasingly depend on foreign countries.
Biden doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel that requires transparency of global environmental and labor laws as the United Nations Trade Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) already has one report A breakdown of some of the unintended negative effects of environmental displacement or “leakage” of emissions abroad, including environmental degradation and human rights abuses.
Additionally, Amnesty International has documented that children and adults mine cobalt in narrow man-made tunnels) and that they are exposed to the dangerous gases produced by sourcing these rare minerals, not to mention the destruction of local ecosystems when the wastewater and other unusable ores are released On the environment, they have no choice but to live because their wages are so infinitely low that we should take a step back and examine our moral obligations to humanity.
America could promote sustainable mining in these developing countries to restore the country to a healthy ecosystem after the mine closes, and to provide the surrounding communities with more prosperity, education, health care and infrastructure that they had before the mine went into production went. Like mining in America, mining in developing countries must be the goal of corporate social responsibility and the result of successful ecological restoration of landscapes.
America’s passion for green power to reduce emissions must be ethical and not stem from overseas human rights and environmental abuses that provide exotic minerals and metals to fuel America’s green passion.
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Ronald Stein, PE
Ambassador for energy & infrastructure
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