My Third Blog Post.
Is Mining Beneficial or Harmful? Mining can be both beneficial and harmful. In order to see what's best let’s look at the pros and cons of mining. Mining can benefit us a lot by giving us important resources. It provides us with fossil fuels and metals. Without mining we would not have some of the resources we need for fuel in cars. Or we wouldn’t have some of the metals that we need to build things. According to the authors at the site Environmental-Conscience, “ Mining is also important to ensure a high level of technological progress. Our industries rely on natural resources from mining and without sufficient amounts of resources, our technological progress would be slowed down sufficiently.” Another benefit to mining can also give jobs to some of the poorer people on the planet. Mining can provide people with needed jobs in places where there are not a lot. Especially in many ...