Storming the Gates of Paradise (2007)
“But if you want to know who picked up the bill, look in a mirror. The profits were quickly spent, but the costs are still rolling in, both as an inventory of what we lost and an assessment of what still needs cleaning up.
By 1857, California gold miners had extracted 24.3 million ounces of the metal, but they left behind more than ten times as much mercury, along with devastated forests, slopes, and streams. Today, there’s a new gold rush underway on the other side of the Sierra Nevada, and it ...too is racking up huge bills for the public, bills that will be coming due for centuries to come, bills that we will pay in taxes for restoration, and bills that can never be paid, for pure water, cultural survival, wildlife, and wilderness. All the gold that multinational mining corporations are taking out of the country won’t buy back an extinct trout species or a pristine aquifer. When you tour the museums of the Gold Country, as the Sierra Nevada foothills are still called, you see children dressing up in historical costumes and playing at panning for gold—but it might be more educational for them to play at testing for clean water, imitating mercury-poisoning madness, reading a corporate prospectus, or conducting a wildlife survey.MoreLess
By 1857, California gold miners had extracted 24.3 million ounces of the metal, but they left behind more than ten times as much mercury, along with devastated forests, slopes, and streams. Today, there’s a new gold rush underway on the other side of the Sierra Nevada, and it ...too is racking up huge bills for the public, bills that will be coming due for centuries to come, bills that we will pay in taxes for restoration, and bills that can never be paid, for pure water, cultural survival, wildlife, and wilderness. All the gold that multinational mining corporations are taking out of the country won’t buy back an extinct trout species or a pristine aquifer. When you tour the museums of the Gold Country, as the Sierra Nevada foothills are still called, you see children dressing up in historical costumes and playing at panning for gold—but it might be more educational for them to play at testing for clean water, imitating mercury-poisoning madness, reading a corporate prospectus, or conducting a wildlife survey.MoreLess
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