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ananda

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8. So, more poisoning and destruction of the rainforest.

Reply to Calista241 (Original post)

Thu Aug 24, 2017, 10:14 AM

Aug 2017

One scientist/activist I saw said that he was very worried
for the rainforest, one example being mercury poisoning
since they use mercury to extract the gold.

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