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value of life
by shazam on 29 December 2000 @ 09:32 PM

It's known that mining creates pollution. Among this, cyanide pollution. agreed. now check this.
We have a canadian company spilling cyanide in the US. a canadian company spilling cyanide in Guyana, South America. Responses? $3 million to clean up in the US, zip for Guyana, in a waterway that connects to the amazon, and on which thousands of people rely for their sustenance.(did i mention the word CYANIDE)
The value of life revealed!

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Re: value of life - standard price for human life? by Anonymous on 30 July 2001 @ 04:29 PM
http://www.gci.org.uk has some interesting statistics in their "value of life" campaign. IPCC numbers said a Third World life was worth 1/15 of a First World life and GCI did a lot to publicize that to Third World governments. A systematic campaign to raise the value of life in developing countries is the only solution, but it requires actually acknowleding that government decisions do set a price on a human life, the same way engineers and planners do, by deciding how much they'll pay to save it. Or not. The bridge is engineered for a 50 ton truck. Not a 60 ton truck. There's an inherent price on life there. It's there in every single government or business decision, and the great tragedy is that we can't find out what it is, except when something has gone wrong.

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