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October 23, 2005

Gold's Huge Cost to the Earth

Think gold is glamerous and worldly? How about poisonous and deadly? It is unconscionable that a consumer item of no intrinsic value routinely leads to tons of land being pulverized and spewed with toxics to yield an ounce of gold. The mining industry is destroying the Earth and must be stopped.

Posted by Dr. Glen Barry on October 23, 2005 11:29 PM

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