Still, I care less about relative quantities and more about what can be produced with the absolute amount at hand. How many houses, cars or circuit boards could be made with 30,000 tons a year?

There’s always some bigger problem you can point to that seems to render the point at hand useless, but as they say, 30K tons of copper saved is 30K tons of copper earned.

> Still, I care less about relative quantities and more about what can be produced with the absolute amount at hand

This attitude is exactly why our planet is dying. Instead of investing time and effort into things that matter, people become hyper-focused on worthless things that have no impact. Like measures to conserve a trivial amount of water at home.

It's a poisonous and wasteful way to think.

> There’s always some bigger problem you can point to that seems to render the point at hand useless

That's simply not true. We have real problems to solve. The numbers are clear. This isn't one of them.

I believe you've misplaced a decimal in your conclusion. 30,000 is 0.15% of 20,000,000, not .015%.

Still pretty insignificant, though.