Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/01/mining-company-destroys-sacred.html
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That’s one way to get the ancient spirits attention, not the best way…just one way.
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Christ, what an amalgamated conglomeration of assholes.
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“Oops™”
I’d feel better about that if it was someone outside of the company doing the review. As it is, prepare for “Oops 2: Electric Boogaloo™”
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It went something like this…
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More important, it shows deep disrespect to the living people who have a connection to that cave.
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Very much so, the list of things the company (and the regulating agency) should have known better about is long. Too bad their caring about site only happened after they blew it up and just for PR purposes.
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Far too little, far too fucking late, Rio Tinto. They did it during Reconciliation Week and about 48 hours before Sorry Day. Cunts. Absolute fucking cunts.
Dammit, was so angry and distraught I named the wrong company. Corrected my post.
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It’s hard to even comprehend a span of time like 46,000 years in terms of human culture. Our oldest and most cherished man-made structures barely scratch the surface of that time scale.
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Yes, and that’s why knowingly destroying such a thing, then offering a ‘whoops, we messed up but we’ll review our policies’ is absolutely inadequate. Fucking unforgivable, actually.
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“We promise to never blow that cave up again.”
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The same RioTinto/BHPBilliton that is preparing to destroy Oak Flat in Arizona. Sacred to the Apache.
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This is not a one-off.
Now Google Barrup Peninsula. 40 000 yr old rock engraving site, thousands of engravings- depictions of long ago extinct animals, possibly first depiction of a human face. A gas refinery built in the middle of it.
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The saying “Do first, ask forgiveness later” seems to be the motto of shitheel corporations/politicans.
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At least they’re taking it seriously.
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“…unless there is even the slightest economic benefit to doing so, in which case we will.”
And the same Rio Tinto that allowed a catastrophic dam collapse to just happen.
They have form in not caring about the locals, as long as there is profit to be made.
Along with the government departments that have oversight and also sat back and did nothing.
As usual.
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