China is overplaying its hand on rare earth materials

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https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5634021-china-rare-earth-leverage/

[Smokin Joe]

Interesting. Much of US development of Rare Earths has been held up by environmental concerns. Recycling and alternatives for permanent magnets may mute the relatively small market (in terms of dollars, smaller than what Americans spend on pet food, annually).

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Interesting. Much of US development of Rare Earths has been held up by environmental concerns. Recycling and alternatives for permanent magnets may mute the relatively small market (in terms of dollars, smaller than what Americans spend on pet food, annually).

Yep. China excels because they don't care about their people or environment.

[Smokin Joe]

Yep. China excels because they don't care about their people or environment.

True, but at times the environmentalists display a tendency to be overzealous to the extent that no development occurs.

Funny how they can confab on their iPhones and laptops and develop strategies to shut down the very extraction processes essential to the tech they use.

But then, environmentalism is an -ism, which makes it purt'near a religion.

I miss the ecologists.

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True, but at times the environmentalists display a tendency to be overzealous to the extent that no development occurs.

Funny how they can confab on their iPhones and laptops and develop strategies to shut down the very extraction processes essential to the tech they use.

But then, environmentalism is an -ism, which makes it purt'near a religion.

I miss the ecologists.

I thought Rush put it well, we should be stewards of the earth but yeah, agree on environmentalism.

[Smokin Joe]

I thought Rush put it well, we should be stewards of the earth but yeah, agree on environmentalism.

I agree about stewardship. Land that has been in the family since the 1600s is still being farmed. My grandfather rotated crops, tilled in manure and the stalks from last year's tobacco crop when tobacco was the cash crop. In general, the land was taken care of. It wasn't until 'experts' started making rules that that became more difficult to do.
The tidewater estuary I grew up on had valuable fisheries in it, but has now been reduced to a shadow of its former self by such experts who made rules that stopped people along the river from using traditional and effective means of erosion control, etc.