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They'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Gold
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29 May 2002 |
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| They'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Gold What if the environmental movement could do to gold what the animal-rights movement did to fur -- convince the public that far from being a badge of success, it is a symbol of cruelty and vanity? Some environmentalists would like to do just that, and they've got the facts to back them up: Gold mining leads to cyanide contamination in water sources, w ... |
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| Topics: green living, mining and drilling, Nevada, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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