China to destroy ancient Buddhist city of 'Mes Aynak' in Afghanistan for copper mining

[packman]

2. Understand your concern, but doubt it will happen here

Not as long as there is cheaper labor, less restrictions, third-world countries and their governments and people to exploit. Here we elect the asswipes who protect the industries doing this in other countries so they can bribe and corrupt them with impunity. Americans are getting increasingly sensitive to environmental abuse and it is becoming too political to have open-pit copper mines like we once (and I think still do) had or destroy ancient early American sites to run an oil pipe line through.