"Some mining areas have been called “sacrifice zones”: places where people and nature are made to bear the damage so that economic life elsewhere can carry on.
Just think about those two words: sacrifice zones. Who decided these places could be sacrificed? And who gets the benefits?
An electric car on a European street may be cleaner where it is driven, but its story began long before anyone plugged it into a charging point. Its copper and lithium came from somewhere."
https://theecologist.org/2026/oct/28/carbon-colonialism-frontline
Gerry McGovern
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