5 October

This beautiful satellite image shows a mine in Inner Mongolia that is the key to the whole modern world. The Bayan Obo mine. Most of the rare earth minerals used in modern technology come from China, it produces over 90% of the world supply. It also has far and away the greatest reserves of these minerals. Which is another reason fossil fuel companies pay for propaganda to say renewable technology is impractical, because China has nearly 40% of the known reserves. It also builds more than 90% of the technology these minerals produce, while our own countries create fake wealth using financial industry speculative instruments. The Chinese still build things. In fact they build most of our things, because we're too stupid and lazy to do it ourselves. The device you're reading this post on is nearly certainly built using the minerals from this mine.