If you think natural resource extraction "helps blue collar people" you're misled, or disingenuous.

Edit: also the tribes are gonna nope hard on this one. As they should. Or do those people not matter.

Consolation: a similar discovery was made in the Methow and that effort was successfully blocked. With so much tourism there, the people of the valley did not support the mine, and rallied to stop it from happening.

It's kind of like how others view art. The power of art is how it reflects back to us our reality. Though this is a more literal interpretation.

I see posts like this a lot - comparing real life to a video game. As someone that has never played a video game (except Mario cart when I was a child), can someone explain the significance of this? Why is it meaningful to people? At least, meaningful enough to write a post about it, and have others say the same.