Where do the costs and benefits of extraction usually fall?

• Both always in one street
• Benefits locally, costs nowhere
• Costs locally, benefits far away

What does open cast mining do to the local land?

• Strips soil and plants across valleys
• Plants new forests by itself
• Freezes rivers into safety

Waste rock from mines can pollute streams for decades.

A town gets poisoned wells while shareholders in a far city profit. Why does the fight feel bitter?

• Wells enjoy being poisoned
• One place pays while distant places gain
• Shareholders live beside the mine

A coal train coats towns in dust along its route. What does this show?

• Transport stretches damage from pit to plant
• Harm stays only inside the pit
• Trains clean the air they cross

A plant scrubs its smoke but the mine and ash ponds remain. What has the control done?

• Removed every harm at once
• Moved harm around rather than removing it
• Closed the mine by magic

Someone calls a fuel clean by pointing only at the power station. What is missing?

• The colour of the station walls
• The full ledger: mine, transport, burn, and ash
• The names of the station staff

A city swaps petrol cars for electric cars and claims extraction is solved. What is the honest check?

• Accept the claim without checking
• Ban counting lithium and copper
• Ask which extraction shrinks and which grows