Kinross to greenwash cyanide
By Sergio U. Dani, from Göttingen, Germany, December 24, 2009
Kinross Gold Corporation, a transnational Canadian company that pollutes the environment, robs drinking water and kills people in Paracatu-MG, Brazil, has announced its new greenswashing move this Tuesday [1]. Kinross announces “Cyanide Management Certification” in its gold mines in the Americas and Russia. Stephen Odoi-Larbi has written about this greenwashing modality in Africa in a recent article [2] attached hereto. It reproduces to perfection the pathetical and notious greenwashing move as has been observed in Paracatu and elsewhere: polluting companies’ self regulation; violation of human rights, despise of nations’ sovereignty; wrong voluntary code of conduct; greenwashing intended to better the interest of the mining companies operating in countries.
Sources:
[1] http://www.kinross.com/news-articles/2009/kupol-becomes-first-mine-in-russia-to-obtain-icmi-environmental-certification-.aspx, accessed December 24, 2009.
[2] http://allafrica.com/stories/200910210070.html, accessed December 24, 2009.
Read attachment [2] here:
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
What is at stake in Copenhagen
A who-shall-die-last game? Or the ascent of a new kind of world leadership?
"Let us give good science, good systemic projects and good systemic leaders a chance to save our humanity by saving our planet."
Sergio U. Dani, from Göttingen, Germany, December 18, 2009
For those wondering why official politicians and negotiators are unable to set an agreement at Copenhagen, I offer a guess. Official politicians and negotiators are common sense thinkers backed by mainstream economy, industrial and financial institutions in their respective countries. They are created in a competitive system where money endows power, makes one strong to defeat weaker competitors. Since enough political money – and therefore enough political strength – is in possession of the rich, what most people aren’t, then conducting politics and negotiation has become an exclusive right of a fistful of rich and nouveau rich people.
A fistful of privileged rich people and institutions are intrinsically programmed to win competitions, not to lose them. They deal with global warming as if it was a competition as any other one. Their task, their default is to win this competition and keep growing. The reason why they are up to mischief is certainly this. There is no such thing as a growth competition when it comes to global warming and critically degrading resources. Global warming and environmental degradation have to be dealt with in their own rights. After all, global warming affects all of us, the rich and the poor, the intelligent and the fool, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the elderly, the winners and the losers. Science of the environment has taught us that systemic changes do not abide by political rules or geographic frontiers.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
How do toxic chemicals move around the planet?
How do toxic chemicals move around the planet?
Read Elizabeth Grossman's article in Scientific American for awesome explanations.
Swimmers, hoppers and fliers: How do toxic chemicals move around the planet?
By Elizabeth Grossman
Toxic chemicals created by human activity reach unusual concentrations in the Arctic, among other places
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-do-toxic-chemicals-move-around-planet&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend
World's top 10 most polluted places
Open cut gold mine at Paracatu-MG, Brazil: arsenic contamination and mass murder. Photo by Beto Magalhães, July 2008.
World's top 10 most polluted places
Where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects
By David Biello
From the December 2007 special edition of Scientific American
Poisoned water haunts Bhopal 25 years after chemical accident
Poisoned water haunts Bhopal 25 years after chemical accident
By Sara Goodman
A new report says water contamination is worsening as chemicals leach through soil into the aquifer
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