Gold the environmental choice?

December 25, 2009

Gold the environmental choice? Surely not. Well as with many issues it depends on your frame of reference. Firstly, before I receive thousands of angry emails I want to acknowledge the undeniable fact that gold mining is a dirty industry: it can displace communities, contaminates drinking water, hurt workers, and destroys pristine environments. Not exactly a great foundation for gold as an environmental champion I know, but hear me out.

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