We have today a world looking at the word 'Mining' with a jaundiced eye & tinge of green
This is partly right but to a very very large extent WRONG.
FOR all KNOWLEDGEABLE & Unlettered citizens it is of a primary Importance to know in a life cycle of civilization,that WHAT CANNOT BE GROWN HAS TO BE MINED.
Meaning that i can GROW Wheat on Mother Earth, but i need to MINE iron from mother Earth to make a implements to harvest the wheat into flour to get it onto the table.
We can make cars from the same iron mined but we need the crude oil to make it run.
we make furniture from trees to sit/sleep but we again need to mine iron to make nails to hold the chair together.
As we all see, its Mother Earth,that provides us all the sustenance,the ability to grow & the ability to harvest .
So, one cannot pit ONE INSTEAD OF OTHER, BUT IT'S ONE WITH ANOTHER
With a back ground of the necesacity of .having to have a marriage of convenience of mining & all other activity,we need to look at the recent imbroglio of Orissa bauxite mining project.
This project in orissa was one to mine aluminium.in a remote tribal areas,but was shot down by Environmentalist as a Ecological disaster.
Once the dust settles,its apparent that
- the project was shelved as it would bring in tribal s in mainstream thro rehabilitation from their origin,which means you cant take them for a ride & get them to vote as per your fancies.
- the project will have brought economic development in an non congress ruled state
- The economic uplift would have been credited to the state Government,which is bad for - Congress as it shows opposition party in a good light fr the local populace
- The increased revenue for the state translates into increased development of the state
that too a NON congress state.
- The tribal empowerment would be like taking away the trump card of the Live-in Crown prince,a young 40ish Rahul Gandhi; A baby in politics.
- the project initially OKd was suddenly done away with as it dawned on them that a certian industrial group ie Vedanta will be having a respectable share of the Aluminium ore vis a vis others.
if u look at things we now know- that on Mother Earth besides land to grow wheat,besides ore to use for mankind's benefit there also are species called politicsapiens,who are there to remind us that besides roses in life there are nasty thorns ,who make people life miserable more miserable that what mining purports to do.
