The Water Defenders
How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
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نقد و بررسی
March 1, 2021
It is said that the great battles of the future will be fought over not oil, not land, but water. One such conflict has already played out in El Salvador, pitting its poorest citizens against corporate marauders. At the start of the twenty-first century, when most Salvadorans were living in conditions more like those of the eighteenth century, the prospect of wealth and material improvements offered by the Pacific Rim Corporation in exchange for rights to mine gold in the country seemed like the perfect means to a better way of life. But when a group of dedicated community activists realized that the cyanide PacRim would use to extract the gold would irrevocably poison the country's watershed, it set out to stop the devastation before it could begin. Broad and Cavanagh are international social and environmental policy advocates who expose in granular detail and with great compassion the deadly, dangerous, and daunting legal and legislative juggernaut faced by those forced to defend and protect their most precious natural resource from the fallout of industrial greed and corruption.
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