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Originally Posted by midfinger
I'm surprisingly OK with the lower pic of the stripmine. After all we need those resources and once we get them we will leave and reforestation will take place. Perhaps the mining company should foot the bill to re-terraform it...but just a few years after it will look like we were never there. I may not see it look like that but my grand children will. Or is that to shortsighted.
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The mountains don't grow new dirt and rock.. In most cases they leave the sides exposed which causes even more loss due to washouts. In best case scenario they might sod some locations, but most of the time once they have taken what they can take its just left as a shitty eye sore.