The Hidden Shame of the Global Industrial Economy. Ed Ayres.
by Ayres, Ed; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 25Environment. Publisher: World Watch, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Developing countries -- Environmental conditions | Endangered ecosystems | Environmentalism | Gold mines and mining | Indigenous peoples | Logging | Natural resources -- Developing countries | Oil well drilling | Pollution | Uranium mines and miningDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the 16th century, Hernando Cortez sailed to Mexico seeking gold for the Spanish empire. He found a lot of it, and seized it without compunction, killing any Aztecs who stood in his way. Today [2004], that kind of plunder may seem antiquated--abhorred by the community of nations. Of course, we still suffer the depredations of various transnational criminal cartels and mafias. But those are the exceptions, the outlaws. Today, no self-respecting nation or corporation would engage in the kind of brutal decimation of a whole culture, simply to seize its treasure, that Cortez did. Or would it?" (WORLD WATCH) This article reveals that "the plundering of precious metals and other assets is far more prevalent today that in centuries past," noting that "scores of nations seeking cell phones and teak furniture...are seizing materials from native cultures--some of these materials in quantities that the conquistadors could never have imagined."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Hidden Shame of the Global Industrial Economy, Jan./Feb. 2004; pp. 20-29.
"In the 16th century, Hernando Cortez sailed to Mexico seeking gold for the Spanish empire. He found a lot of it, and seized it without compunction, killing any Aztecs who stood in his way. Today [2004], that kind of plunder may seem antiquated--abhorred by the community of nations. Of course, we still suffer the depredations of various transnational criminal cartels and mafias. But those are the exceptions, the outlaws. Today, no self-respecting nation or corporation would engage in the kind of brutal decimation of a whole culture, simply to seize its treasure, that Cortez did. Or would it?" (WORLD WATCH) This article reveals that "the plundering of precious metals and other assets is far more prevalent today that in centuries past," noting that "scores of nations seeking cell phones and teak furniture...are seizing materials from native cultures--some of these materials in quantities that the conquistadors could never have imagined."
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