The late 17th was an exciting time in England, and far more complex than I could describe, no matter how long my comment.
The Tory party was not formed in a single day, not was every Tory born on a single day. There was continuity of actors and motivations.
It would have been politically inadvisable for an English nobleman in the period to be openly Catholic; nonetheless, many of them were, and this was certainly a factor in their favour of James, whose Catholicism was an open secret.
Remember that many of these tories spent a long time in exile, primarily France, a vigorously Catholic country.
Remember also that Catholicism was the state religion in Britain until disestablishment, a scant hundred years prior. Not all of the nobility converted - Mary found plenty of supporters.
I don't have the scholastic chops to back up this idea, but it seems fair to say that crypto-Catholic noble families would have been biding their time, nursing their resentments, and waiting for a chance to restore Catholicism to England. That was surely a factor in their support of James, who was clearly not a desirable king on his own merits - being raddled with syphilis and detested by the commoners.
Potentially a fair point vis a vis the environment, but it’s not really true of people as far as DeBeers is concerned. I know people that work for them in Botswana and I hear nothing but good things about them as an employer. On the environment, Kimberlites are pretty small and the environmental impact of primary diamond mining isn’t really that great in the grand scheme of things. Take this with a pinch of salt from a guy on the internet sharing some anecdata etc etc.
When I was starting out I was then working in a different career. A lot of the work was analytical (Excel, GIS, etc.) and so I moved my work from those tools into Python.
I started small but eventually learned enough, alongside doing some online courses and personal projects, to get a job as a data scientist in a similar field.
