All Gold Mining Needs To Stop

Tim Knowles
Sep 1, 2018 · 1 min read

Why do we allow people to tear holes in the planet and make huge waste piles so that the precious metal can be put in vaults. Seriously, we have more gold sitting in vaults than will ever be used for anything besides a store of value. We allow environmental damage and pollution just to squirrel away wealth. It is such nonsense, it needs to stop.

Gold mining is evil and Bitcoin mining is a worse evil. Bitcoins pollute worse than gold. Mining Bitcoins uses massive computers made at huge costs to the environment and then they must consume a lot of energy most of which is produced using fossil fuels and what do we get, numbers in a distributed ledger system.

We are destroying the planet and often times for no good reason.

If we are going to exploit the planet it needs to be for good reasons and for the benefit of mankind.

TEK

Tim Knowles

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Worked in our nations space programs for more than 35 years

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