That would be great. But what I’m talking about is the collapse of the price of gold.
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Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 days agoI dunno. I would be cool with it if we stopped mining for Gold with all the environmental problems and found a way to profitably clean up the mercury from past gold mining and places like Grassy Narrows with extensive mercury poisoning.
kokesh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Eximius@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Since fiat currencies are not connected to gold… no problem?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I would assume that this would lead to a rise in mercury mining instead of cleaning up Mercury contaminations, because that would probably be cheaper. And I don’t think mercury mining is any less toxic than gold mining.