Black-Eyed Susan — FOTD Oct 16

Hi all My latest post for Cee’s FOTD. Black-eyed Susans I did a series of AI edits for today’s beauties… watercolour, hand-drawn pastel, & acrylic. I…

Black-Eyed Susan — FOTD Oct 16

Sharad Purnima: A Celebration of Moonlit Blessings

चारु चंद्र की चंचल किरणें,  खेल रही हैं जल थल में… स्वच्छ चांदनी बिछी हुई है, अवनि और अंबरतल में… . पुलक प्रकट करती है धरती,  हरित तृणों की नोकों से……

Sharad Purnima: A Celebration of Moonlit Blessings

The Earth and Indigenous peoples are dying for our Gold Obsession! Please Choose the Right to Life over Gold Profits and Vanity! | Barbara Crane Navarro

photo: Barrick Gold Corporation

Gold is a colonial relic that we urgently need to recognize as essentially worthless – the deforestation, pollution and catastrophic impacts on water, wildlife and Indigenous communities is mainly for futile and superficial jewelry and financial products.

The only useful function of gold – around 10% of the total extracted – is for electronics, etc.

photo: Barrick Gold Corporation

Nothing says “I love you” like… 20 tonnes of mine waste?! That’s how much waste rock is dug up and discarded to produce the amount of gold in a single ring!

Is this you?

ALL GOLD, LEGAL & ILLEGAL, causes contamination of the area’s water, soil, air, wildlife & Indigenous peoples! It’s not possible to tear up the ground to extract gold using cyanure or mercury & create toxic waste without destroying the environment!

Yanomami child playing in a river 
 photo: Barbara Crane Navarr

Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela and other Indigenous families all over the world use the rivers and streams near their communal homes for drinking water, bathing and cooking. The invasion of Indigenous territories by thousands of illegal gold miners is leaving forests devastated as well as rivers and fish poisoned by the toxic mercury used in the gold mining process. The illegal gold mining dredges run on diesel fuel that contaminates the atmosphere with smoke and fumes.

Dredging barges used by illegal gold miners in Indigenous territory
             photo: Divulgação

«The gold miners are destroying our rivers, our forest and our children. Our air is no longer pure, our game disappears and our people weep and cry out for clean water. We want to live in peace. We want our Yanomami Territory back.»

Yanomami children in the contaminated river near their home
photo: Reprodução/Twitter @Dario_Kopenawa

« My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying.

We Yanomami suffer, we don’t have peace. The gold miners destroy our houses (Yanopë), destroy our forest (Urihi), destroy our spirituality of the shaman and spirits of the forest (Xapori and Ayakora).

The gold miners took everything, our safety & our health. »

  • Júnior Hekurari Yanomami
Deforestation and contamination by gold miners in Indigenous territory 
photo: ISA

This madness must stop!

Please help end the cycle of deforestation and devastation!

The consumption of this unnecessary, environment-ravaging product fueled by publicity that attempts to convince the gullible that owning gold confers glamor or worth must end!

The power and responsibility lies with us, the consumers. If we purchase gold or other products from deforestation, we’re complicit.

Please boycott all products from deforestation; gold, palm oil, beef, soy, exotic wood, gemstones, etc.!

Please purchase locally-sourced, in-season items that aren’t transported from 3000 kilometers away!

For more details regarding the merchandising of gold using the Yanomami and trees, please see here:

and here:

For more details regarding the global “legal” gold corporations, please see here:

 

LEGAL GOLD – Stand with communities affected by « legal » Gold mining! 

ILLEGAL GOLD – Stand with communities affected by « illegal » Gold mining around the world!

Please Boycott Gold!

Source: The Earth and Indigenous peoples are dying for our Gold Obsession! Please Choose the Right to Life over Gold Profits and Vanity! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Como o desmatamento e as mudanças climáticas transformam a Floresta Amazônica em fonte de carbono para a atmosfera! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Os países amazônicos são privilegiados ambientalmente e devem utilizar esta vantagem para desenvolverem-se de forma sustentável e contribuírem com a transição global para uma sociedade em que os componentes ambientais, sociais e econômicos sejam equilibrados Colniza, MT, Brasil: Área degradada no município de Colniza, noroeste do Mato Grosso. (Foto: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil) Marcelo Camargo / […]

Como o desmatamento e as mudanças climáticas transformam a Floresta Amazônica em fonte de carbono para a atmosfera —

Source: Como o desmatamento e as mudanças climáticas transformam a Floresta Amazônica em fonte de carbono para a atmosfera! | Barbara Crane Navarro