Working on effects without addressing root causes only ensures the problem continues.
I’ve worked on technologies for #water pollution reduction for nearly 10 years.
It’s clear that the most effective solution is to prevent pollution in the first place.
On Ghana’s Gold Coast, gold #mining has caused severe water pollution, leading to widespread suffering among local communities.
Such extensive environmental harm is more likely where regulatory capacity is limited, a gap that often separates poorer countries from wealthier ones.
Ghana’s financial dependency, despite its resource wealth, is not an exception. And its water crisis is not an accident. It is the visible endpoint of decades of debt-driven development that convert the natural wealth of the Global South into external profits for the Global North, while leaving local societies with the #environmental costs.
Only by addressing root causes can we prevent their effects.
#Neocolonialism works through dollar debt dependency. Societies in the Global South can opt out and join a neutral and independent form of money with properties defined by its users.
My first piece for the SBI
the Guardian
Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom
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