Ah. The irony of a well publicized disaster...

It always amazes me when there is a mine collapse how the networks spend every second telling you how dangerous mining is and the conditions are terrible and capitalism is evil and blah and blah and blah.

I wonder how many of the rambling morons on the tube realize that they and the rest of their environmentalist ilk might as well be personally murdering these miners?

Because of restrictions on the types of mines that can be built, and the typical NIMBY bullshit, strip mining has all but disappeared. That only leaves subterranean mining to produce the ore that ends up in the talking heads's Bentleys and jewelry.

Anybody ever heard of a strip mine caving in? Not me.

Big open pits for a better tomorrow. That's my new slogan. Or maybe, Save a miner-kill an environmentalist.