This month, a pivotal agreement to protect 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 was made by roughly 190 nations, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity. But on the heels of this sweeping deal to protect nature and our planet, pro-toxic copper mining proponents are pushing to create an industrial mining zone in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters. This would be an ecological disaster. This would significantly exacerbate climate change because destruction of boreal forest for industrial mining is a double whammy — the release of much of that carbon into the atmosphere and the loss of the capacity of the land to take up carbon in the future. |
