So if we outlaw mining, that would eliminate cell phone and computer manufacturing. So...your letter to the RG would not have been printed (let alone even sent to them, unless you hand wrote and hand delivered it to them, after walking to their office). But then how would they publish it? Would they have a room full of scribes hand writing out individual copies of the paper to subscribers? Since...you know...printing presses would no longer be able to be built (no mining=no metal=no printing presses).

You had a good letter going there, until you got to that last bit.