Plundering and polluting for profit regardless of the human, social & environmental consequences.
#OakFlat is a sacred place to the Western #Apache, #Yavapai, #O’odham, #Hopi, and #Zuni. It is a place where rituals are performed, and resources are gathered; its loss would be an indescribable hardship to those peoples.”
#BHP (aka Bloody Huge Polluter) #RioTinto (aka Rio Stinko)
#Capitalism
CounterPunch.org · From Oak Flat to Ukraine: Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy ResourcesAncient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This is Oak Flat (Chi’ chil Bildagoteel), a sacred site for Native Americans, including the Western and San Carlos Apache. And like many other lands across the West, it’s under grave threat from multinational mining interests, all in the name of climate mitigation, but most importantly, for the money
