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It’s so much easier to focus on a stupid remark by someone who was reacting to relentless vile slanders than to really think about the massive surface destruction of the Superior National Forest and the pollution of the Boundary Waters that would be the result of the giant industrial mining district that the mining companies and their corrupt political allies are striving toward. It’s so much easier to post a cute and demonstrably wrong quip about “rare metals” and to glibly throw out “hypocrisy” than to acknowledge the economic disaster that copper mining in the Boundary Waters watershed would cause to countless businesses and property owners across northeastern Minnesota. The commenter who wants people to love the area for all it offers is apparently in denial about the loss of what the area offers if copper mining is permitted. And it’s not hypocritical to do a cost/benefit analysis and reject the completely bogus and mindless claim that current technological gimmicks and future technological developments depend on sulfide-ore mining in the Boundary Waters watershed. Hypocrisy? That would be claiming that one’s pro-copper-mining position is based on what’s good for the community when in fact it’s based on resentment of and hostility to people who have done the hard work of figuring out the permanent and irreparable damage that copper mining brings with it and who aren’t afraid to say so. The world is awash in copper. The Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters, is irreplaceable.
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