You can see more of this leftist, anti-mining ranting at this link:
http://www.decoin.org/
Amazing how times change.
I have a collection of currency notes that I picked up in China many years ago. One has a picture of a guy tending a blast furnace, another has a power dam, there's a farm tractor with a cute chick driving it, and another one with a great big shovel in an open pit mine....heh.
Socialism's contribution to world development, I guess.
Then there's Chernobyl.
ebear