Underground Environmentalist

Why mine minerals? Why should we continue to engage in such a practice, even if it is reportedly a highly polluting process, and causes a host of environmental issues such as polluting groundwater and other freshwater resources? How do we reconcile Indigenous claims on the land, and their desire to protect ancestral territory, with the interests of mining companies and the state in the interest of preserving a means of producing and accessing critical minerals required in the energy transitio...