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How would that work? All metals we harvested, we moved maybe a few kilometres higher.

• freeflight 6y ago
  We also diluted their concentrations and refined them, so it's not only "just moving them a few km up", we spread it way out in way smaller concentrations than natural deposits tend to be, which prior existed in very different structures due to the way they get formed. And to note: I'm not saying that's actually a thing, what I'm taking issue with is these reflexive declarations of human activity supposedly being "too insignificant" as regularly being the go-to answer to many environmental changes and issues to categorically deny human activity as having any and all influence on them. Imho that's just short-sighted and belittles how often we have been absolutely wrong with that kind of approach, only to then later having to admit "We fucked up and now there's not really a way to fix it, our bad". Because contrary to popular belief, not even 21st-century humanity is without flaws, we are not omniscient, even when quite often pretend to be to justify that kind of false hubris of "insignificant human activity".