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The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this "demon metal," this "blood mineral," has a horrific present and troubled history.
Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago - theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth, exploitation of workers, enormous wealth generation - that has made...
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For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario's garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000 in Northern Ontario. Unlikely Radicals traces the compelling history of the First Nations people and farmers, environmentalists and miners, retirees...
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