Green Energy Needs Minerals, Yet America Blocks New Mines
22nd November 2024
People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.
It claims it uses law “to confront the climate crisis.”
What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things.
Example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. Even President Joe Biden made a speech saying America will need 400-600% more such minerals to make “solar panels, wind turbines and so much more!”
An iPhone alone requires aluminum, iron, lithium, gold, copper …
But when investors dare try to dig up such minerals in America, the NRDC objects and uses political connections to stop them.
So, actually, it isn’t America that blocks new mines, but government that blocks them. An important distinction that ‘journalists’ ought to keep clear but seldom do.