“Of all the metals, the aggregate potential for damage to human and environmental health is the greatest for copper,” a report by The International Institute for Sustainable Development stated. An OECD investigation had similar findings. Copper mining has a long history of “mass destruction” of the environment.
Mining oligarchs have claimed that the copper industry has “a duty to restrict its expenditure on the non-productive, usually costly, means of controlling pollutants.” The North American Copper Development Association, with its lovely green leaf on its sustainability page, puts a more positive spin on things. Copper, copper, beautiful copper is “a truly green material perfect for building a sustainable world.”
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