Keith D Johnson<p>Hmmm.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RebeccaSolnit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RebeccaSolnit</span></a> shared this image &amp; said &quot;A common response to mention of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>renewables</span></a> is a denunciation of mining for battery materials by people who don&#39;t seem to notice that fossil fuel is also mined/extracted -- on a scale that dwarfs everything else.&quot;</p><p>I seriously wish I knew the actual ratio, which this image does not offer. <br />😠 <br />There&#39;s something to it in that some of the MANY nationwide numbers of heavy equipment already extant, could be making small dams, ponds, wetlands, infiltration systems, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/keyline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>keyline</span></a> plowing, erosion management, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/watershed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>watershed</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>restoration</span></a>, &amp; so on, &amp; would be far better use of a small bit of the remaining oil (most of which, of course, should be left in the ground). <br />The tools that are destroying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> can be used for restoration &amp; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rewilding</span></a>. A bigger outcome (a life-support system🙄 ) with far, far less less oil burned.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/earthworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>earthworks</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/relocalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>relocalization</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>renewables</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EarthRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EarthRepair</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TerraformEarth1st" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TerraformEarth1st</span></a></p>