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Sadly, the Unesco can't protect World Heritage sites. All they can do is withdraw the World Heritage title from a site if it no longer fulfils the conditions for awarding the Unesco label.
It seems to me that the main concerns about the planned re-opening of this open air copper mine are the impact on the environment and quality of air/soil/water/life in general, not primarily the impact on peregrinos on the Camino Frances. Do I understand this correctly? See for example La reapertura de una mina de cobre pone en pie de guerra a agricultores y mariscadores gallegos in El Pais of 28 May 2018.
But of course they can. I am not being cynical, just realistic - IME, there is no end of environmental damage companies with connecitons can get away with. It can take a big effort to stop something like this.I would be surprised if the mining company would be allowed to contaminate the river and the region to such a degree.
Of course not. Again, I'm not being cynical, just understanding the way most of the world works. And what matters is money and profit. Local people and the environment? Pfffft.Is anyone thinking of THAT?
Not sure what the alternative or solution is
Nice poem, but I read it on my Lenovo laptop, which operates on copper conductors. It's circuit boards have to have copper in them. So does just about all the avionics and electronics in the airliner I will fly to Madrid to walk the Camino again.Keeping Quietby Pablo NerudaNow we will count to twelveand we will all keep still.For once on the face of the earth,let’s not speak in any language;let’s stop for one second,and not move our arms so much.It would be an exotic momentwithout rush, without engines;we would all be togetherin a sudden strangeness.Fisherman in the cold seawould not harm whalesand the man gathering saltwould not look at his hurt hands.Those who prepare green wars,wars with gas, wars with fire,victories with no survivors,would put on clean clothesand walk about with their brothersin the shade, doing nothing.What I want should not be confusedwith total inactivity.Life is what it is about;I want no truck with death.If we were not so single-mindedabout keeping our lives moving,and for once could do nothing,perhaps a huge silencemight interrupt this sadnessof never understanding ourselvesand of threatening ourselves with death.Perhaps the earth can teach usas when everything seems deadand later proves to be alive.Now I’ll count up to twelveand you keep quiet and I will go.
@RJM, very true, sadly. And your humor is good too.
And...if there were no more copper on the planet, we would have to make do.
So why not act as if that were the case, and find a way to move ahead with technology without the new (or re-opened) mines?
Or [horrors!] accept limits.
I agree and hope for technology one day less invasive and damaging to our environment. More recycling, and copper (like aluminium) is one of those metals that is semi-valuable and recycled a great deal. You make it valuable and it never hits a landfill or is left on the ground.@RJM, very true, sadly. And your humor is good too.
And...if there were no more copper on the planet, we would have to make do.
So why not act as if that were the case, and find a way to move ahead with technology without the new (or re-opened) mines?
Or [horrors!] accept limits.
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