The 15 Biggest Threats To Humanity Exposed

 

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In addition, Rio Tinto and its numerous subsidiaries have caused and continue to cause massive environmental destruction through careless waste disposal and extractive mining techniques. For instance, Rio Tinto, along with Freeport-McMoRan, owns the Grasberg mine in Indonesia – the world’s largest gold mine and third-largest copper mine. It is also home to three of the world’s eight remaining equatorial glaciers as well as a sacred site for the indigenous people who also live off of the fragile ecosystem located around the mining site. Apart from slowly destroying huge sections of the mountain top in search of gold and copper deposits, the mine uses more than a billion gallons of water a month and dumps over 230,000 tons of toxic waste into the local river on a daily basis. The pollution has killed nearly all plant life along its banks and has contaminated local drinking water supplies. Another Rio Tinto mine in Australia runs a uranium mine where over 100 serious incidents have been recorded, including several cases of “unacceptable contamination.”

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