Veteran Miner's Prayer Answered!

As Andy Hureau implicates in his "prayer" to "God" that ALL mining areas are no longer viable as they have been protected, I say GOOD.
Food, clothing, shelter and heat do NOT exclusively function with the help of metals as he indicates. I am almost certain people existed without metals in era's prior to the "Bronze Age" and "Iron Age".
I could be wrong, and we could be misplaced aliens living on this nice planet, but according to archelogical evidence, people DID survive without metal impliments.
While I am not trying to say that it is easy to survive without metals, it IS possible. And the wonder of recycling has made mining less in demand, because who wants tailings changing the natural plane of the land with big, ugly piles of "waste rock" when we could melt down the metals previously mined instead? If MORE recycling could be utilized in MORE places in the world, we could possibly stamp out mining all together.
Is anyone mouring the loss of the "operator" job in telephone switchboards? Who still wants to hear 10lb headphones and connect calls all day for minimum wage or less??
I view the mining industry much the same...miners as they were no longer exist, and all the more better for it. Mining is awfully hard on the environment, and while perhaps Mr. Hureau
couldn't be bothered to give two rat poops about the environment where he would like to mine, I am sure that his progency will still need clean air and water, and unpoisoned food to survive. They will need clean water air and food more than shiny metals. So perhaps Mr. Hureau's idea of lying to his grandkids about the nature of his work is a correct inspiration, as they may be wildly upset to know that Grandad is doing his part to poison and infect their food, water and air.