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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: longnshort who wrote (81958)11/10/2006 10:11:41 PM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
Uh, maybe cause it wasn't causing much pollution? Besides, he didn't close it; the people he was leasing it to did. Probably because it had run its course.

Gore is not stupid. He knows that we need zinc, as well as other minerals, to stay alive as a society. The point is not that mines are unnecessary, but that we must be responsible in how we extract and use the planet's resources.