I hope these miners get rich because the mine was not paying them while they were trapped.
It was the mining corporation that caused this collapse due to over mining because of corporate greed.
Did the mining company not ?go bust? (did a runner) soon after the collapse ?
Miners have always had a hard life for centuries and all too often we still hear of these mine ?accidents? that are caused by over mining a vein but then again life is the cheapest commodity on the planet to our corporate masters.
Out of sight out of mind :
Every time you go to the supermarket to buy disposable junk, or any other item, do you ever ask yourself where did the resources come from and what destruction of somebody?s environment was the consequence of the product you are looking at in the nice clean store or catalogue ?
As if by magic the shelf in the store refills like there is an endless supply but in reality the world has finite resources not infinite resources.
As a species we are doomed unless we start to take responsibility for our environment and the minerals that we exploit. Minerals are not for disposable junk just to make us look good in a shallow fashion driven society that thinks money is god.
The world is getting trashed and for what ?
No matter how you view the world there is only one way for humans to survive and that is to put more effort into being responsible rather than being spoilt brats.
These mineral deposits we take for granted, and just throw away the end product, without a second thought about the miners that risk their lives for slave wages or what will we do when we have exploited everything to annihilation.
It is a miracle we have survived this far but if we don?t act soon then there will be little point in having children as they will inherited nothing but a toxic hole in the ground thanks to their forefathers greed.
I hope these miners are all ok and don?t get major health problems thanks to our corporate masters that are nowhere to be seen at the first sign of trouble.
