hypocrisy of anti mining advocates

this specific blog am writing is inspired by my friend's friend, Rex Russel Colina... He wrote this note in his facebook profile and for this purpose, I will be lifting his words in expressing my own thoughts too about mining...though his note specifically targeted ABS-CBN, i believe that his points should be slapped not only to them but to the entire supporters of anti-mining advocacy in my beloved country, Philippines...

i firmly agree with him that there are many things in this world that are undesirable—pollution, corruption, poverty, discord, disease, and many others...  and what we often fail to include in the list is HYPOCRISY.

this word really hits the bone of many contentions, but I would like to focus this particular contention to the advocacy of anti-mining supporters... they claims to be against mining, and seems to be intent on bullying the mining industry.... Is there an ulterior motive? I have a strong reason to believe that there is…

But going back to hypocrisy, i categorically claim that all of the anti-mining supporters are hypocrites... all of you profess to be against mining and i would love to see the day that you practice what you preach...

It seems that those advocates are enjoying in bullying industries that have no media savvy, and are easy to bully.... what they failed to mention is that they should make the distinction between responsible and irresponsible mining.... yes, i may agree with them that irresponsible mining are wrecking havoc in our country but this reason would not be enough to categorically bad mouth the industry as a whole...  it's like saying all in the police department are bad... the mining industry is doing their very best in working with the government to curb this irresponsible players... and these anti mining advocates should help the government instead of barking at the entire industry as a whole...

these anti mining advocates should have to acknowledge how much mining has contributed to our country.... they should acknowledge how many jobs it provides for our countrymen... and how many great cities across the country were built and created by the industry, cebu city and baguio city to name a few... lastly, how the mining industry served as the backbone of the economies of many great and wealthy countries like USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Germany etc....

if they are not yet convinced by this simple reasons... then i must say that they really should practice what they preach.... If they despise mining so much, please, do us all a favour and DON’T support it....

for a start... DON’T buy products that are from mining... DON’T make use of these things that mining provides for us... Do us a favour and STOP using these mineral resources that can be produced only through mining.... Show us all that all of you are sincere in your advocacy.... Shun anything that has metals, rocks, petroleum products and its derivatives; gems, concrete, and the rest of the products which I may have failed to mention, which, in one way or another, can be produced from mined products... i long to see the day that all of you would start by riding in a wooden car that runs on water... throw away your phone, laptop, gadgets, jewellery, coins, and your clothes....

and what really gets into my nerve is that even the media giant, ABS-CBN seems to ride in this anti-mining advocacy... maybe ABS-CBN must no longer uses wires and cables, or even electricity for that matter... they should cut their towering signal antenna and replaced it with lumber i must say...

all of these things i mentioned are all major products of the industry that they claim to despise... i can go on and on and in case they don’t realize, their homes uses concrete (which is produced by mined resources), glass (another mineral resource), metal (one of the major products of mining), and electrical appliances (which use components produced by mining)... so to be believable for me, they should start living inside caves again.....

though I respect that they have an advocacy.... and I, in fact, admire them for it.... but maybe they have to stop being a hypocrite....