In my opinion it is absurd thing that mining will affect environment then if it do then every electric equipment is responsible for it. Don't take these environment friendly protesters seriously as they usually travel in luxuary car and waste environment resources then they attend some event and start fake narative of environment destruction. It is true that global warming is increasing but that doesn't mean that if we stop some electronic appliances then it will slow down. Government has to take some big step towards it to solve the problem.