Human beings have a unique responsibility on this earth. We are capable of caring for our planet. To my mind, we have spent many hundreds of years plundering the planet instead of taking care of it.
We have poisoned its rivers with mining runoff, poisoned its air with foul fumes and smoke, and poisoned the seas with gushing rivers of oil. We have caused the many unique creatures to be extinct. Where do we think we are going to live when our planet is dying a slow death from increasing temperatures and climate change?.........
The NRDC is sending out pleas for people to act against the global mining giants who want to establish a huge open pit gold/copper mine in Bristol Bay, Ala. The mine is called a pebble mine. It would devastate the wild salmon run in Bristol Bay, where native people depend on the salmon runs. It would also create billions of tons of dangerous waste which would be contained in an earthquake prone zone. You never read that in your local paper.
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