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Mining driving Indigenous extinction
"A small Indigenous community in Russia’s Far East republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is challenging a gold-mining giant owned by Russian magnate Alexei Mordashov in what they deem a last-ditch attempt to preserve their traditional livelihoods."
“We, both young and old, wish to continue our traditional way of life and pass these skills on to future generations of our people. And this is only possible if we conserve nature”.
It takes 20 tons of earth to make one gold ring.
In a handful of soil there are more than 50 billion life forms.
There are 5,000 handfuls of soil in one ton.
100,000 in 20 ton.
5,000,000,000,000,000 life forms poisoned by mercury and cyanide to make one gold ring.
80% of gold is for vanity.
10% is for speculation
10% for industry.
Gold mining is environmentally devastating