Originally posted by DINSTAAR
Holes are cool, but I give the cake to the scar with the cheetahs and rhinos roaming free in it.

And I'll put the cherry on the cake

Let's hope that one day the holes in the article go the same way.

The holes destroyed not just the land, but the lives behind it: People displaced, enslaved and victimized against, all for the valuable commodity that they had the misfortune of living on top of, not to mention the miners used up and tossed aside in the pursuit of the Industrial Revolution.

It is a revolution still going on strong today with materialism and greed fueling the plunder of Earth, which cannot possibly go on without major confrontations between nations who want to profit threatening the existence of Earth unless of course, there is a singular world government plundering hand in hand

From the article:

Another open pit whose name leaves little to the imagination, the Big Hole in Kimberly, South Africa, is said to be the largest hole excavated by hand – despite recent claims that the nearby Jagersfontein Mine holds the some might say dubious title.

While it was closed in 1914, during its 43-year lifetime, the 50,000 workers who broke their backs using picks and shovels shifted 22.5 million tonnes of earth, yielding almost 3 tonnes of diamonds for their jolly bosses, the de Beer brothers.