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India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields
Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a battleground. The war being waged in Hasdeo Arand, a rich and biodiverse Indian forest, has pitted indigenous people, ancient trees, elephants and sloths against the might of bulldozers, trucks and hydraulic jacks, fighting with a single purpose: the extraction of coal.
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When (a lot of) money is involved people tend to decline into being mentally handicapped. Severely handicapped.
Mother Nature has her ways, but self-destruction is not one of them which make me think we are truly on a suicide-mission as human beings, Mother restores herself and gets over us in no time. As in: on a universal scale in no time. Something like that.