Blood diamonds. Salmon gold.
Can I just go on record saying "I told you so!"
When the oil tankers started zooming around the ocean, did anyone think about how much it was going to totally suck containing and cleaning up oil spills?
When the nuclear plants where being built, did anyone think it was a bad idea to live next door?
I guess I get that if we currently run on oil, it needs to get from place to place and it has to travel by ocean freight. I also think it's a tragedy that nuclear energy could be so amazing, but obviously has some catastrophic drawbacks . . .
I don't get how Northern Dynasty Mineral just has to convince a few officials in Alaska to share in the several billion dollar profits Pebble Mine will generate, at the cost of clean water for both the people in the area and the salmon we all love to eat (if we eat it since that is where most of the Alaskan wild caught salmon we eat comes from). It's totally going to be the, "I told you so" with NDM shrugging their shoulders and saying "Sorry . . . ? There are safe ways to extract gold and copper without polluting the water, but I guess someone fucked up. A pipe leaked some acids and trace metals. We'll do an investigation and find the one who did it and make that person apologize."
Blood diamonds.
Salmon gold.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15053463
When the oil tankers started zooming around the ocean, did anyone think about how much it was going to totally suck containing and cleaning up oil spills?
When the nuclear plants where being built, did anyone think it was a bad idea to live next door?
I guess I get that if we currently run on oil, it needs to get from place to place and it has to travel by ocean freight. I also think it's a tragedy that nuclear energy could be so amazing, but obviously has some catastrophic drawbacks . . .
I don't get how Northern Dynasty Mineral just has to convince a few officials in Alaska to share in the several billion dollar profits Pebble Mine will generate, at the cost of clean water for both the people in the area and the salmon we all love to eat (if we eat it since that is where most of the Alaskan wild caught salmon we eat comes from). It's totally going to be the, "I told you so" with NDM shrugging their shoulders and saying "Sorry . . . ? There are safe ways to extract gold and copper without polluting the water, but I guess someone fucked up. A pipe leaked some acids and trace metals. We'll do an investigation and find the one who did it and make that person apologize."
Blood diamonds.
Salmon gold.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15053463