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 Stories About: globalization AND Hungary AND mining and drilling AND pollution and waste AND rivers and watersheds AND water pollution AND wildlife
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Dead in the Water
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Donella H. Meadows |
14 Feb 2000 |
Global Citizen |
| Here's a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best. Early this month a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country's eastern border. A wave of cyanide was moving down the Szamos and into the Tisza, Hungary's second largest river. No one knew what had happened, but there was talk of a mine, operat ... |
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| Topics: globalization, Hungary, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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