There’s a bumper sticker that I used to see plastered to the belongings and facilities of mining/mineral engineering students and professors in college. It said something like “If you can’t grow it, you gotta mine it!” And it’s literally true; besides air and water, every product that you ever buy ultimately derives from some combination of mineral ores and agricultural crops. You cannot oppose mining on its face without sending us back to the Stone Age. Oops, where do we get stones without extracting them from the lithosphere? I guess we have to go even further back beyond the Stone Age. Ouch.