A contributor last week called LCC’s electric bike raffle “tragically ironic”, as if a simple bicycle with a battery pack could rise to that level.  I might suggest that the mining industry (the number one polluter in the nation) pushing the idea that we need more mining to “go green” is the truly tragic irony here.  Haven’t you heard the old adage, “You can’t mine your way out of the climate crisis”?  The vast majority…