Augustine spoke about the impact of gold mining in Suriname, which has contaminated the river with mercury and cyanide. Mercury, she said, attacks the nervous system and has caused deformities in many children of the Indigenous people there who depend on the river for their food.
Unlike in Ecuador, the Indigenous people there have no rights, and corporations take their land. And according to the Doctrine of Discovery, Christians have the right to take land from Indigenous people. That doctrine was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing the majority opinion, said Augustine.
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