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Now let us hope all countries follow the suite and ban all metal mining right away.

So you're going to lead the way by stopping using any metal products, right?

Including your computer?

To such a fallacious reply the recent news of Apple deciding to only use recycled materials should be enough of a response I think.

You're asserting that the human race has mined all the metals that we'll ever need. Do you really think that's a reasonable position?

The comment was sarcasm obviously directed towards people who are hailing this move.