Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.

"Sure we destroyed the planet as we knew it, but for a brief moment in time, we increased value for shareholders!"

What usually happens is the area becomes too rich for the usual folk who have lived there since their birth. Now they can't eat at a restaurant in their own home town.

You think existing government can't manipulate you into thinking we are in a democracy?

Money can be a dictator too.

just to teabag another nation.

Gestures broadly at the space race of the 1950s

Actually a little bit of humiliation goes a long way towards diligence when conducting expensive space experiments. Russia used to be the leaders in these fields. The world used to rely on Soviet vehicles for launch. They deserve to be held at a higher standard.

Touch luck world, i will be too out of touch to care. Full boomerism here i come!

Why did the coup occur? Do the citizens of Niger support the coup?

So it's an inconvenience you would rather not put up with and let some old coot die.

No surprise. Land of the free... but also the land of the inconsiderate, and also perhaps selfish.