So you'd have us revert to a society with a 19th century technology? Which is pretty much where we'd be without cobalt, just to name one critical mineral out of dozens. How's your horsemanship? Like your soda-pop (or beer) in aluminum cans? Can't have any. We've never mined bauxite in this country. No steel cans either, tin for coating the steel hasn't been produced in the USA since before WW2. No solder for assembling electronics - solder is 50% tin. Wind turbines? Forget 'em - they need neodymium for the magnets. We have some, but the technology to mine it and refine it will be gone. Oh, and those big steam turbines that generate base-load electricity? Shut them down, too. The blades need chromium alloy steels or they erode away in months. Suppliers in order are China, Turkey, Kazakhstan and, India, with Finland a distant 5th.
You came to the wrong shop Reverend; I'm a retired manufacturing engineer. I can go on like this for hours.
“You came to the wrong shop Reverend; I’m a retired manufacturing engineer. I can go on like this for hours.”
La di da.
It doesn’t seem to prevent you from being a globalist fool who wants the West to be as dependent as possible on imported materials.
Between Canada and the USA, almost all this entire list could be mined here but a coalition of environmentalists and globalists prevent it. Each for their own reasons.
There are existing mines, closed mines, and known ore bodies in North America. For example:
NeoCon clowns want industrial offshoring and dependence on imported critical materials, combined with never-ending globalist wars that we don’t have the industrial base or mineral supply to support.
Which University courses do elitists take to think this is a good idea ?
-Engineering for Civilizational Collapse ?
-Manufacturing Strategy for Catastrophic Military Defeat ?