5 Jewelers, Including Tiffany, Boycott Gold Coming From

[Bobbieo]

The Proposed Pebble Mine In Alaska Near The World’s Most Productive Salmon Stream

WOW - Another business goes GREEN!!!!!


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[NNadir]

1. You mean the one Amory Lovins said was OK?

The one that he accepted a $20,000/day Greenwashing fee for endorsing?

Oh the injustice...

How the hell is going to afford another 50,000 sq. ft McMansion in the sky?

[noamnety]

2. This is not a business that's going green.

The concepts of going green and mining gold are incompatible.

The industry itself is environmentally unfriendly by definition, and in reality a pit of human rights abuses.

The lure of gold has fuelled massive human rights atrocities in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said in a new report published today. Local warlords and international companies are among those benefiting from access to gold rich areas while local people suffer from ethnic slaughter, torture and rape.

... The gold concessions of northeastern Congo, some of the richest in Africa, could help to rebuild Congo’s shattered economy. But according to Human Rights Watch researchers, fighting between armed groups for the control of the gold mining town of Mongbwalu cost the lives of at least two thousand civilians between June 2002 and September 2004. One miner told Human Rights Watch: “We are cursed because of our gold. All we do is suffer. There is no benefit to us.”

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/02/congo11041.htm

[Bobbieo]

3. I'm paraphrasing AP!!!!!

[noamnety]

4. I can appreciate that.

If the AP claimed gold mining was going green, they were participating in ... well, the same sort of upholding a system of corruption, capitalist exploitation, and environmental damage that they generally participate in. Poisoning the environments of underprivileged people abroad instead of in our own backyard does not constitute going green, that was my point.

[Bobbieo]

5. Pebble Mine is trying to poison the underpriveleged people

in our own country - America!!!

[noamnety]

6. Yes. I wish we cared equally about the people of all countries.

I just don't have it in me to be as excited as you are that we are only poisoning those other people.

It's a step in the right direction for them to at least acknowledge that the industry causes damage, though. A small step, but a step.

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[Andreshunter77]

8. All these companies care is their money

Me, me, me.