Gold for cyanide
As you wrote that "business is business" I remembered a controversial project that came back into these days' media.
It's about allowing a Canadian company to extract the gold in a certain area using cyanide. The place where this should happen was very wild and savage mining was practiced there for a long time. There are historical (even Roman) vestiges too, but despite having these gold reservoirs, it's always been a very poor area. The strong public reactions had kept the project still for a while, but now it seems new interests- political ones- will revive it. Of course, the environment will suffer for a long time, and most of the population was already forced to move away.
I am too tired to write more, and it's too complicated. Here is some more data.
I think not everything should be for sale. Buildings -yes, but not places nor nature.
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Damage to environment is never seen at first. then, when problems get on the way, everybody starts saying: "I was sure this would happen", evne those who promote the disaster.
People have a strange way of "retroactively foreseeing" things, don't they? :)
I'm having a dissemination for the course in Malta in the staff meeting today (a bigger one will follow in 2 weeks, for the Math teachers in the district). Hope it's OK. I've read that the human mind is miraculous: it starts functioning the moment we are born and only stops the moment we have to speak in public.
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