In the Bayan Obo area of the inner Mongolia, you see gray and dug land around you, the footprint of decades of intensive mining for rare land, which are essential for modern technologies such as mobile, computers, screens and electric vehicles. China has about 50% of world stocks of rare earths and dominates their extraction and processing. This sovereignty offers strong geopolitical and economic influence, but also has a serious environmental and social cost. BBC journalists visited the two largest mining zones – Bayan Obo in the North and Ganzhou in the South – and recorded alarming images: artificial lakes with radioactive waste, contaminated waters and soils, as well as reports of increased incidents of cancer and genetic abnormalities. BBC: Poisoned Water and Scarred Hills https://t.co/uk2tfs6le7the Price of the Rare Earth Metals the World Buys from China pic.twitter.com/6olyopuugc – Tom Grundy (@tomgundy) It is particularly sensitive to criticism of environmental consequences and journalists had […]
Source: News Beast
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