Could living on/ mining the moon cause unintended consequences for Earth? e.g. changes in tide or anything else?

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Could living on/ mining the moon cause unintended consequences for Earth? e.g. changes in tide or anything else?

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So if we are just living and mining on the moon, nothing changes.

Moon’s gravity effect comes from moon’s mass. if we are just mining and living on the moon, the stuff isn’t going anywhere, moon maintains its mass.

But if we start to strip mine it and ship the stuff back to earth. over a long period of time, it will gradually lose gravity, and we’ll see the effect.