Lynn Hoff

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Perhaps what makes the destruction of the Juukan caves most disturbing is that we are all, one way or another, complicit. Cheap iron ore from Australia is part of the reason China has been able to carry on producing cheap goods for the rest of the world. That cheap iron ore has become the steel from which China has built the factories and machinery where our smartphones are made, where batteries are assembled, where the toys for our children are manufactured.
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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