The emperor’s new clothes: sustainable mining?
The emperor’s new clothes: sustainable mining?
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皇帝的新衣：可持续采矿？
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2005
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A. Whitmore
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摘要在过去的几年里，由于行业的赞助，“可持续采矿”的想法已经进入了许多国际进程的议程。现在，许多国家都在推动邀请跨国矿业公司加入进来，他们的想法是，有一种与过去不同的旧的、糟糕的做法--“新的、可持续的采矿”。然而，与这种言辞的转变相匹配的是，该行业到底发生了什么变化？从受地雷影响的社区来看，似乎什么都没有改变。他们的土地仍然在没有得到他们自由、事先和知情同意的情况下被剥夺，他们正在遭受对他们的生活方式、健康和环境的同样的不良影响。本文将用菲律宾和西巴布亚的案例研究来说明，在这种说辞下，采矿业“帝国”如何拥有同样的赤裸裸的旧野心。本文旨在从受地雷影响的社区及其支持者的角度来看待如何看待“可持续采矿”。理想情况下，这样一个社区的代表应该撰写这篇文章，但由于这是不可能的，我以矿业和社区(MAC)编辑委员会成员的身份撰写这篇文章。(Mac是世界各地的组织网络，寻求增强受采矿影响的社区的能力，使其能够与破坏性的提案和项目作斗争。有关矿业和社区的更多信息，包括其编辑委员会的成员，可以在http://www.minesandcommunities.org.)上查看与MAC合作的许多社区都是由土著(或第一个原住民)组成的，他们在自己土地上或附近的矿产开发中处于不公平的不利地位。因此，本文件将在某种程度上集中讨论土著社区的问题。
Abstract Over the last few years, the idea of ‘sustainable mining’ has, thanks to industry sponsorship, been working its way into the agenda of many international processes. There is now a push in many countries to invite in multinational mining companies with the idea that there is a ‘new, sustainable mining’ that is different from the old, bad practices of the past. Yet what has actually changed in the industry to match this shift in rhetoric? From the perspective of mine-affected communities, nothing seems to have changed. Their land is still being taken from them without giving their free, prior and informed consent, and they are suffering the same ill effects on their ways of life, health and environment. This paper will illustrate, using case studies from the Philippines and West Papua, how under this rhetoric, the mining industry ‘emperior’ has the same old naked ambitions. This paper intends to look at how ‘sustainable mining’ is perceived from the viewpoint of mines-affected communities and their supporters. Ideally a representative of such a community should be writing this, but as this was not possible, I am writing this as a member of the editorial board of Mines and Communities (MAC). (MAC is a network of organizations across the world seeking to empower mining-affected communities in their struggles against damaging proposals and projects. More information on Mines and Communities, including the members of its editorial board, can be viewed at http://www.minesandcommunities.org.) Many of the communities MAC works with are made up of indigenous (or first, aboriginal) peoples, who have been unfairly disadvantaged by mineral development on or near their land. The paper will therefore concentrate to some extent on the issues of indigenous communities.