no, native chileans, you can’t have that glacial water.

http://www.doublestandards.org/dickinson1.html

what the hell is wrong with people these days?

yes, let’s screw up these people’s lives by mining for gold. because we don’t need fresh, lovely, glacial water. no, gold is shinier.

now, repeat after me.

water sustains life.
gold causes people to argue, fight, war, and rape lovely glaciers.

yes, let’s make chile the next boliva. let’s contaminate this beautiful source of water for gold.

because profits are the only thing that matter anymore.

yes i know that gold helps the economy, profits help the workers and what-not, and it would probably give the country some sort of economic boost…

but what about the people in the valley?

/end hippie rant

p.s. i know chile isn’t bolivia, i know they actually are fairly better off.

don’t care. i would get just as pissy if this were somewhere else. potable water = good. water that has to be filtered 45897435 times so you don’t die doubleplusungood.