Comment on Space is starting to look like the better mining operation
vmaziman@lemm.ee 8 months agoI would agree if mining the rocks on earth didn’t cause ecological collapses and kill off animals and displace indigenous and exploit underprivileged ethnic classes in post colonial hellholes
vmaziman@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m sure mining in space will have its own problems but at least it can’t kill our biosphere
schmidtster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s been studies that have found metal particles in the atmosphere, so anything entering and exiting are seemingly shedding particles.
So it’s likely to cause issues down the road unfortunately.
neshura@bookwormstory.social 8 months ago
I’ll take the issue down the road over the one already in my doorstep any time of the week.
Atmospheric pollution is at least something that seems fixable with extraterrestrial resources. Ruined biospheres due to mining on earth seems less avoidable/fixable unless we go back to pre-industrial living standards.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How would it be fixable? The more stuff entering and exiting the atmosphere, the more particles. The particles aren’t from manufacturing on earth from what I read.