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I agreee with Lizzie because she was talking about how if we want to have to have solar energy we have to mine the resources to make the solar panels to create the solar energy.

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That everything that we use as some source of mining involved with it

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If we didn’t mine the different resources we couldn’t have the things that we need like our cars and transportation. And how if it isn’t grown it has to be mined. If we don’t mine we can’t make the things to clean up the abandoned mines.

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Safety and environmental concerns (bethany)

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Safety and environmental concerns (bethany)

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Yes there are environmental and safety concerns but with new technologies and innovations we can help those issues be of less concern.

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The thing is, what if you are getting paid and told to clean up all the extra rocks and things from mining there but then you do decide to just leave it even though you said you wouldn’t. Then what would happen

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From https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/367034-coal-mining-deaths-skyrocket-in-2017 it says, “Coal mining deaths double in 2017. Workplace deaths in the coal mining industry increased last year to their highest point in three years. A total of 15 miners died on the job in 2017, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) data show, compared with eight in 2016”

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Mining is good if we clean up afterwards and set the environment back to how it was.

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Well even if there are not as many deaths as we said there are still human life’s dying. The Chicago tribune said that even though through the last 100 years the lower net of deaths are lowered that there are still  people dying so it’s still not helping.

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They have to clean up the mine as soon as they are done mining

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The laws are helping clean mines making more mines safer and laws also about how much a person can work in a speacific jobs

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We can’t just stop mining all together. People would rebel and we would descend into chaos.

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According to bbcnews.com “Although there are no accurate figures, estimates suggest mining accidents kill about 12,000 people a year.”

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Sure mining might have some disadvantages, but they have more pros than cons. Like making items and finding people jobs

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I agree with Lizzie when she was talking about how the people that choose to work in the mining business know the risks and how that anybody can die from any other job too.

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I think some people sometimes won’t have a choice and do have to take that job. Like what if someone had a past criminal record and couldn’t get any other job then mining, like in that sort if situation they would have to take that job because they need money and they need income to be able to buy things and live so it sometime is not there choice and they need that job even though it’s dangerous and don’t want it

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Without metals our cleaner energy would not be there. Our world might be more polluted and even if mining is hurting the environment greenhouse gasses might hurt it faster.

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To get solar panels and wind turbines we need to mine. If we don’t mine we don’t get wind turbines or solar panels.

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Way to go josh

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Without mining we would not have solar panels to get energy.

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Mining definitely isn’t the most dangerous job in the world. And just like josh and Lizzie said technology is being improved and mining related deaths have dropped to like 35 annually and that isn’t a very significant number. 27,000 potential jobs could be created by polymet and all the thousands of jobs created by mining overall could greatly improve the economy. And when the economy is improved that could help figure out even safer ways to mine.

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I think the anti-mining group is focusing to much in the past and not in the future. Yes, in the future many people died from mining, but now we have come up with safe ways and we will only come up with new safety ideas

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If we stop mining before we know that renewable energy is going to work, we would collapse. Solar panels use metals and wind turbines use 60 pound of copper and we need to mine to make the world clean? Confusing.

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That Mining for gold can be a very important for getting money

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Even if it gives you a job it can also kill you. So you are risking there life’s when there could be a better way. 1,000 people die each year. Even if we don’t send all people down in the mine people are still down there and are still could get the black lung.

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All the different ways people come up with for cleaner energy. Still require resources from mining to operate. If we truly went clean energy we wouldn’t have any power because, solar panels for instance , still need copper and other minerals.

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I am anti mining because jobs can be life threatening, affect the fish in rivers, it erodes the environment, and cause lots of pollution. Is there a compromise for keeping the environment clean and safe? Maybe we could gradually slow down mining?

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Hundreds of workers used to die from mining

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Mining creates many jobs and if they suddenly shut down, and people without jobs will end up in a national depression

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I agree with josh how mining can provide jobs for people struggling to pay bills and that need a job to support themselves.

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Mining causes pollution and pollution kills 9 million people each year.

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Mining gets us the resources we need to make windmills which is very good for the environment.

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Without mining, people wouldn’t be here today

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Like Isaac said earlier lots of miners used to die from black lung, but now there are Laws and regulations that prevent that. Now it’s safer and we don’t have as many mining#

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It can be a big concern in Minnesota because of Lake Superior . There is mines close to the boundary waters and the pollution can leak into there. Also for Lake Superior, it can take a very long time for it to fully passs through and during that time there can be even more acidic things flowing into to Lake Superior and more animals can die

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Mining allows jobs to be opened and allow people who are looking for work to have work.

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Mining creates jobs and also if the company’s replant the areas it would be fine

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Mining results in thousands of job openings with would leave less people homeless

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If there weren’t mining, we wouldn’t have everyday supplies we all take for granted.

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We have alot  of time and minerals to dig up

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I think that we need to mine because it helps up with every day things that we use like cars and phones

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In one of the articles I read yesterday it said that we need to start using renewable energy before China goes full renewable energy because then we would lose money because it would be a monopoly.

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I see that the jobs aren’t the best but some people are homeless and they need jobs to live. Also immigrants when they come to America they need jobs and mining jobs is a pretty good job to provide for there family’s even though mining isn’t the healthiest.

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What can we do  to replace the minerals and use something renewable?

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Why Mining Has Evolved Our Everyday Lives (Farhan)

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Why Mining Has Evolved Our Everyday Lives (Farhan)

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We use cars, phones, and many things, but most of these things are made of copper.... If we didn’t mine we wouldn’t have many things.

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(Marina) I agree with Sophie with what she was saying about if we didn’t mine, we wouldn’t have the things we use daily.

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You need copper and other ores to live. What would you do without phones, technology and many other daily essentials. We need to mine to produce these daily essentials.

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That used very little copper because we still have a lot of mines that we can gather form

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I am pro-mining because if we want to have more clean and renewable energy, we need to mine copper to make that.

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I have heard about potentially mining asteroids (and there’s hundreds if not thousands of those) for materials and predictions show that it could boost the human economy by a lot. And yes we could use eco-friendly resources but we need mining to access those (like solar panels or wind turbines for energy for example) also “My own status” and “in response to their point” are from me

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In Brazil, mining results in a loss of 6,100 square kilometers of Amazon forests every year

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What could replace minerals we use and depend on?

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Mining is needed for our everyday needs. It provides jobs and helps the economy grow. Without it all of our technology would slowly go away.

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I am pro mining becauce we be need these ores to continue living. We also use them all the time such as the Ipad we are using now.

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If we still have lots of resources that could be mined - four million tons - why should we just keep it there?

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I think that it can be necessary but it comes at a cost that I believe isn’t worth it and like the fact that animals can die in the after because of the after effects of mining and the cost can be a lot to clean up the after effects and its to much time

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I am a pro mining because that we can make resources like copper

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I’m pro mining because so many aspects of our day to day life are affected by mining. Without iron, copper and other materials that are harvested from the ground we wouldn’t have cars, cell phones and things like wind turbines that generate energy. Plus without computers my dad wouldn’t have a job and I likely wouldn’t exist due to his backrground.

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Gold is a very good conductor and every phone has a little bit of gold in it. So if we don’t mine, we wouldn’t have any phones because phones have copper, iron, and gold.