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Environment Update #4
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Environment Update #4

Rare earth mining, plastics offsetting and climate displacement

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Richard Nield
May 08, 2025
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Edition #4 of this newsletter features the devastating impact of rare earth mining in Myanmar, the pollution enabled by ‘plastics offsetting’, and the lead dust from uncovered waste dumps beside a former mine in Zambia that has led the UN to describe the area as a “sacrifice zone”.

Also featured are the warping of information that comes with oil industry…

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