Wolfgang Korsus, Dipl.-Ing. NT, astrophysicist

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Chapter 33/ ?

THE SEVERELY DAMAGED EARTH! A GLOBE WITH POCKMARKS AND HOLES

‼ HUMANITY IS RUNNING RIOT ‼

Open your eyes, today the surface of our planet is being torn apart on a gigantic scale! Sure, it’s only the thin crust, because everything else is beyond its technical capabilities. But many things a little further away make me unthinkable… dreamy and self-assured.

I can only predict one thing: Try to rehabilitate your desecrated „home“ before it completely and irrevocably „breaks“!

Always keep your eyes on the path, then you will surely find the glittering obsidian (hand axe accessory). That was true in the Neolithic Age! But even less believable… humans already dug, or rather, rummaged around for clay and loam to make their first ceramics and pottery. I simply call this searching toil the first OPEN-PIT MINING.

Examples include deep drilling for oil and gas; even the sea finds no peace from the drilling and digging idiots. Here, it concerns manganese nodules at a depth of over 4000 m.

As a „human animal,“ I am much more familiar with dry land…let’s devote ourselves to the pits, known to everyone as sand and gravel accumulations. These are the remains or „leftovers“ under the terminal moraines of the glaciers from the last ice age.

After „exploiting“ them, of course by humans, people wanted to do something good and talked big about renaturation, then about swimming lakes and recreational areas! I… very commendable, right???

Now I turn to the next buzzword: quarries. Here, too, humans ran riot. After all, „limestone quarries“ provided the material for the Pyramids of Cheops and marble for the Acropolis.

„Sandstone“ is one of the most popular and ubiquitous building materials, not to mention granite, basalt, and slate. Even the last „building material“ is considered… when humans plan for eternity… then they can surely already hear the grass growing! … it has to be „stone.“

Let’s just look at Germany, where alone, between 170 and 220 thousand tons of rock are moved annually in around 2,050 quarries, and the so-called cutting of peat and clay seems to have little impact on our earth’s crust without any deeper significance. But please be aware that moors have a strong regulating effect on the water balance. I would say that they are excellent water reservoirs and also fulfill a significant function in species and landscape conservation. A few years ago, the peat cut from the moors, a precursor to the well-known coal, was used as a regular fuel.

I like to use the phrase: Now they are literally skinning the earth again with open-cast mining. The consequences are hardly clear, let alone worth mentioning emphatically… just contamination of the groundwater, desertification, lowering of the groundwater table, acidification of the soil, fine dust pollution… I can’t go on, I’ll stop naming further environmental problems; but it’s always the locals who are causing trouble, so away with them, they’ll just be resettled, away from their home of decades.

Further damage, the meaningless ABBAUd OF OIL SAND

The following are extracted in open-cast mining: oil sand and oil shale: primarily in Canada and the USA as an alternative for the time after global peak oil production. Of course, high water consumption during extraction,

the use of chemicals, and high CO2 emissions are on the negative side.

When it comes to „lignite,“ one must speak of widespread devastation! This fossil fuel, which is millions of years old, more than satisfies our world’s excessive hunger for energy today. In 2014, more than 1.2 billion tons were mined worldwide, almost a fifth of which, or 178 million tons, was mined in Germany alone. The location is Garzweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia, where between 35 and 40 million tons are mined each year.  At the end of the 1980s, the GDR was also the „world’s largest“ producer, with up to 300 million tons.

Keyword „STEEL MONSTERS“

Steel monsters are eating their way through the landscapes of both the former GDR and the FRG! Entire villages and towns are being relocated (or not), and this also applies to Garzweiler.

On the subject of gold: Australia’s largest gold mine, which is operated as an open-pit mine, is the Super Pit gold mine in the southwest of the outback. The excavation covers a huge area of 3.8 by 1.6 kilometers and is an incredible 45 meters deep. Australia is therefore one of the largest gold-producing countries alongside China, the USA, Russia, Peru, and South Africa. In 2015, 3,100 tons of this unrestricted precious raw material were mined worldwide.

Allow me to ask: SUPER PIT GOLD MINE … a familiar term?

Let me write about the dark side of gold, rare earth metals: This term encompasses 17 elements that represent modernity like no others.

Our planet’s resources are limited. Both rare earths and strategic metals have become indispensable in our modern world. Without these metals, the production of smartphones, fiber optic networks, electric mobility, laser technology, solar technology, modern medical technology, LEDs, and many other technologies in use would be impossible.

They are used in plasma screens, LEDs, LCDs, batteries, lasers, electric motors, and radiology. Although they are not rare, they only occur in very small quantities as admixtures in other materials that are widely scattered. This results in huge spoil heaps. In 2020, 150,000 tons were mined globally, 100,000 tons of which were in China.

Uranium: Undoubtedly one of the most dangerous raw materials. Until 2009, the Rössing Mine near Swakopmund in Namibia was the largest open-pit uranium mine. In that year alone, over 15 million tons of ore were mined there. The overburden moved for this purpose amounted to a gigantic 42 million tons. The amount of uranium oxide extracted from this totaled 4,750 tons. Today, uranium is mostly mined underground. The largest mine of this type is the McArthur River uranium mine in Saskatchewan, Canada. The largest uranium mining countries are Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Niger, Namibia, Russia, Uzbekistan, and the USA.

RÖSSING MINE

The Rössing Mine near Swakopmund in Namibia was the largest open-pit uranium mine until 2009.

Copper: The largest open-pit mine in the world is also the largest copper mine. Chuquicamata, the huge scar in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, is 4.3 kilometers long, 3 kilometers wide, and 1,100 meters deep. Open-pit mining began here as early as 1913. Since then, a total of more than 4.5 billion tons of copper ore have been dug out of the desert soil.

CHUQUICAMATA

The largest open-pit mine in the world. 13 square kilometers wide, 1,100 meters deep. Diamonds: The Mirny diamond mine in eastern Siberia, which was closed in 2004, is a 525-meter-deep hole with a diameter of 1,200 meters. The first diamonds were discovered here in 1955. At its peak, 2,000 kilograms (10 million carats) of diamonds were extracted from this man-made crater every year. MIRNY Diamonds from Siberia.

MERCURY

A rare raw material. ‼ But every third newborn in the EU is contaminated with mercury. ‼ Almost 75 percent of this dangerous poison comes from the well-known chimneys of coal-fired power plants. In Germany, 11 tons are blown into the air every year, and then, as usual, this poison ends up in the rivers with the rain and then on our plates as fish. Fish from the Danube, Elbe, Rhine, Saar, and many other German waters exceed the mercury limits many times over… I almost said… enormously!

There is a cost-effective technology for mercury separation developed by a „German engineer“ that is already in use in the US. A study „there“ has shown that the consequential damage caused by mercury exposure in young children is more costly than the use of filter technology. However, in Germany, there is no perceived need for action. —- ATTENTION. …Mercury accumulates in the body because it has a half-life of „20“ years.

…even HELL HAS DOORS (what is hell, Mom?) ⁉

I’m sure I know something about that…you can read about it too! → → THE GLOWING DERWEZE CRATER in the Karakorum Desert of Turkmenistan…it’s a „perpetual flame“ that has been burning for 45 years. …never heard of it? …easy to explain, because people were involved again! Soviet geologists drilled for oil here in 1971. …and as is usually the case ⁉ …the ground collapsed over a gas-filled cave, and the drilling rig sank leisurely into a 70-meter-wide hole in the ground. As so often happens, methane gas escaped, creating a risk of explosion, but as always, this was averted by „gentle“ flaring! This had another advantage:

‼ When methane burns, it produces carbon dioxide, which is only the „weaker“ greenhouse gas.‼

But as all of you readers know, there are thousands of sources worldwide, little flames from which methane escapes from the ground into the atmosphere. We can take a stand on the „gasification“ issue, and to put it more piously, I would say: Sometimes the earth „naturally“ emits gas, and often humans have drilled and fracked. … So this is nothing new, because as long as there is really big money to be made from it, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change!!!

It is simply human nature to flare off excess gas during the extraction and processing of oil. Dear readers, please note the following:

„FLAMING IS FAST AND CHEAP.“

It must give people a feeling of „self-glorification“ when they burn 180 billion cubic meters of natural gas as waste in 2020. That’s about 4 percent of our planet’s estimated gas reserves. If you think about carbon dioxide, you should have a tornado-like screaming fit… that’s 400 million tons! A colleague of mine calculated that this amounts to 15.5 percent of the CO2 emissions of all EU countries.

I see people walking around with real „money faces“ and, thanks to their disgusting, repulsive character, they quietly shout: „Quick, get rid of the gas, it burns well! … almost at the same moment: Switch to what makes money! … never think or think ahead!

I, of all people, would never have believed that even satellites could take interesting pictures and make calculations, but that’s what happened. A satellite-based analysis by NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, commissioned by the World Bank, revealed 7,000 natural gas flares around the globe. In fact, it uncovered damning evidence of humanity’s ongoing mistreatment of our planet.

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Many of those involved will have wondered which is the largest CO₂ emitter.

The largest one burns in Punta de Mata in Venezuela. Why there of all places?

Dear readers, think about it…

Here, around 800,000 tons of natural gas are burned off completely senselessly in a year. Speaking of enormous flaring, let’s take a look back at the crater in the Karakorum Desert in Turkmenistan mentioned earlier. Here, the burning crater has now become a small tourist attraction.

Even the president of Turkmenistan made an effort to say something! During a visit in 2011, he promised in good spirits that he would fix the leak, which presumably means that it would be sealed. But that was just a shabby promise, the kind that presidents make every day. I call that kind of thing a shot in the dark! But nothing has happened. It continues to blaze and glow. No one knows how large the gas reserves are that supply the crater with fuel. So the gate to hell remains open for the time being.

…the completely SILENT DESTRUCTION continues senselessly!

Even a „sugar-sweet river is contaminated.“

Many „guaranteed idiots“ have lived before us and spouted quantities of nonsense! One of these feeble-minded individuals had fallen prey to a clever madness; his name was Prince zu Wied-Neuwied. Around 1826, he wrote: „The animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, and even inanimate nature are above the influence of Europeans and will retain their originality; their riches will never dry up, even if Brazil’s foundations were to be ransacked for gold and precious stones.“ I think the man was completely off base, but it goes on… Like many „naturalists,“ he loved to travel (me too)… And so we wrote in 1815 … + he traveled to „Brazil,“ specifically the „Rio Doce“ river!

He was overwhelmed by the dense jungle of the magnificent riverbank; of course, the number of different animal species must have been enormous … … …

… …! … … …? … … … Back then

So, now you can try to think normally again, but nevertheless, the story continues in a shocking manner. It was January 6, 2015, when a shocking event from Brazil found its first audience. Three dams at an ore mine had broken. Near the city of Marina in the lesser-known state of Minas Gerais.

This led to the biggest mining disaster in Brazil to date. An earthquake measuring 3 on the Richter scale is believed to have caused the dam breaches. …. As usual when people are involved, … Wastewater (an extremely delicate term for highly toxic and heavily contaminated water from the mines) was discharged into the reservoir or mine retention basin.

Today, hundreds of years later and over a length of almost 700 kilometers, the waters of the Rio Doce (Sweet, Tasty River) are, as already mentioned, contaminated and poisoned. On November 6, 2015, the dams of two settling ponds at the Samarco iron ore mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais broke.

The toxic mixture, approximately 65 million cubic meters (primarily consisting of waste rock and wastewater), was more precisely a toxic slurry of aluminum, arsenic, lead, copper, and mercury.

A mudslide was set in motion, wiping out the mountain village of Benito Rodrigues within minutes. To make matters slightly worse, the sludge flowed unstoppably into the Rio Doce!

With a slight delay (about two weeks after the disaster), the reddish-brown toxic sludge spilled into the Atlantic Ocean. A recapitulates:

☨ ☨ ☨ A lively body of water ‼ River ‼ dies a miserable DEATH.

Since then, more than three-quarters of this river’s total length of 895 kilometers has been dead. One can read: The valley of the jungle stream, almost as large as Portugal, is known for its unique biodiversity and endemic species. According to environmental experts, the Rio Doce, the former lifeline of a paradise, will take a century to regenerate ⁉

A „lake“ also quietly says „goodbye“ as it disappears

While doing a mediocre „sorting“ of my map „smorgasbord,“ suddenly what I was looking for did not appear! I was looking for it, the „Aral Sea.“ The Aral Sea has disappeared from the map…. The Central Asian states of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan shared the Aral Sea… until now. A respectful inscription preceded it… With an original area of around 68,000 square kilometers, it was still the fourth largest inland lake on earth 60 years ago. It receives its two tributaries „with water“ mainly from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. But now it’s getting interesting…

A former mass murderer named „Stalin,“ whose reign of terror lasted from 1929 to 1953, had simply ordered: Comrades, take huge amounts of water from the Aral Sea for the artificial irrigation of vast areas of cotton fields… And lo and behold, since then the Aral Sea has dried up. The world just stood by and watched, dumbfounded, as it always does when some political moron says something in blind zeal!

Pause for thought!

Hard to believe, it once covered an area the size of the state of Bavaria (which comes into play here). The measures mentioned, taken by a hot-headed ruler, reduced its size to that of Lake Constance.

Info: Cotton is also known as white gold in Uzbekistan. Cotton cultivation and export still account for around 35 percent of Uzbekistan’s gross domestic product. The country is one of the largest cotton exporters worldwide.

I am utterly exhausted and tired from the constant „PLANET MUTILATION“ that keeps coming up!!!