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Gold paves the way to Climate Change


Squashie

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Anyone else watched the ITV report tonight blaming "Illegal gold mining" for the deforestation of the Amazon, leading to the "record-breaking temperatures'? 

Sat in a room full of people who now think it's a sin to own so much as gold jewellery...

Its going to be an interesting decade!

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3 hours ago, Squashie said:

Sat in a room full of people who now think it's a sin to own so much as gold jewellery...

 

Quite rightly so, but help is at hand...

I can suggest someone who would buy it all at a good price!

😎

On a more serious note, there have been a number of other recent, and not so recent, reports of illegal gold mining causing pollution, and encouraging violence, exploitation, child labour, etc.

Gold mining is not the only industry which causes such problems.

 

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23 minutes ago, LawrenceChard said:

Quite rightly so, but help is at hand...

I can suggest someone who would buy it all at a good price!

😎

On a more serious note, there have been a number of other recent, and not so recent, reports of illegal gold mining causing pollution, and encouraging violence, exploitation, child labour, etc.

Gold mining is not the only industry which causes such problems.

 

On a global scale I'd say gold mining, legal or otherwise, is pretty close to the bottom of the list of environmental/socio-economic problem causing industrial activities.

If you remove 'illegal gold mining' and replace it with 'deliberate, unjustifiable, state & corporate induced poverty' then the paragraph would be factually correct.

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