They come offering us trees while drying out our earth.” Residents of Cerrillos didn’t need trees. They didn’t need Google to build them a park—as if the Santiago metropolitan area were such a backward place that it didn’t already have parks. They needed Google to stop treating their land as a place to plunder precious water and other resources; they needed the company to stop dismissing the community as bystanders instead of participants in the development of its local projects. “We know that we feed the world, that we provide raw materials like copper and lithium,” Salinas says. “Nobody is
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