November 5, 2019
"Crisis: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and the Pebble Mine"
This past year has seen a series of definitive scientific reports sounding an alarm about the urgency of our parallel but related crises in climate change and biodiversity loss. With the impacts of human-induced global warming already apparent, sea levels rising, and a million species on the brink, we are at a crossroads in human history that demands an end to resource trade-offs that society can no longer afford. Today, there is no better illustration of this – no clearer test of our resolve -- than the widely condemned proposal to build a massive copper and gold mine in the headwaters of the pristine 40,000 square mile watershed that feeds the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska – called the Pebble Mine.
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