October 3, 2009
Ninja Miners of Mongolia
npr asked:
A 21st-century gold rush is taking place in Mongolia. Its huge gold reserves were discovered only after the Soviet democratic reforms started earlier satellite in 1990. Now, the gold fever has gripped the country, with the 100,000 Mongolians who work as miners assessed informal, many of them herdsmen who have left their flocks behind. Known as "ninja"? of? â miners with their plastic basins of gold-cooking thrown over their backs, resemble TV '? the adolescent? â mutant ninja turtles do not have s …
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Yep. It's actually pretty good advice right now.
these dudes dont look like ninujas at all!
You are not seeing the point there. The real fault lies in the fact that we're trying to make everything so progressive and efficient that we forget to draw the line between what is just a mere desire and what is really needed. Wow, I just can't believe how ignorant your comment is. Why don't u cut all the trees down to only what we need? Why don't u kill all the landscape down to only what we need? Tell me which part in your divine plan is sustainable? I think it's destructive.
The arbitrary value we place on some minerals is so deleterious…
their government sold them out to the highest bidder.
Its not that we have become more foolish. It is that agricultural technology has advanced so far than only a very small percentage of people is necessary to sustain all of us.
The real issue therefore is how to use 75% of people now unneeded in the farms– getting them to live a more sustainable lifestyle, etc
Hmm, so then why does npr say what they say? Just to make the story more interesting?
Everybody looks tired when they're digging a hole, and the smart person knows you make money selling shovels and pans in a gold rush
Most of this stuff is hype. 2 million people in a land 5 times the size of texas. 1 million live in the capital city alone. Go a little east and the fields are numerous and green. This report is a snapshot, not the entire story.
-Humanitarian in Ulan Bator Summer '08.
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you do good guys keep it up
This is one of the downsides of globalization. The people who really know how to live without the stupid system we created is surely disappearing. When the shit hits the fan and the system fails, all that there's left will be bunch of dummies who'll starve to death because the supermarkets are gone. We are preparing our own doom with no back up plan. But who knows… maybe we'll find another planet to do the same mistakes. That should save us for another few thousand years.
at least this isn't most parts of africa like the liberia where "blood diamonds", conflict minerals from the congo (rare minerals like tantalum that goes is used in ALL modern electronic devices) form a way of life with killings, slavery, etc.
what NPR didn't touch on was what the big mining companies are doing, are they gonna start killing people in the future? what will the mongolian government do? start censorship and put people in prison?
Its a good thing these poor mutherfuckers haven't ever seen life in America:
eating alot, driving a luxury car, buying shit on credit (and then defaulting)…
there'd be a fuckin uprising.
As a fan of Monglolian culture. This is heartbreaking. But damn–I guess it was inevitable that Mongolia begin to modernize at some point.
At least they have a way to earn income. Could be worse.
it's right in front of you.
its a sad situation.
i want to help these people so bad, but i dont know where to begin.
I heard China has told it's people to invest in Gold.
Yeah, gold rush, $5 a day. I think the gold buyers are taking advantage of an unfortunate situation…
We think we got it bad…..