Marc Choyt
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Apr 04, 2019
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Ethical Outlooks
We cannot influence large-scale gold mining. It is the politics of greed. What we can do is focus on the small-scale producers. That is the politics of bread. As long as they are out there mining, the only truly ethical path forward is to help these people mine in a way that supports them to live with dignity while minimizing environmental impact.
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Marc Choyt
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Sep 21, 2018
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Ethical Jewelry Expose
In retrospect, this split between Fairtrade USA and FLO was major blow to the ethical jewelry market. Call it collateral damage. You’ll understand more as you read on, but let me just say now that the biggest victims of this split were small-scale gold miners around the world.
Had this breakup not occurred, it’s likely that the US would currently have a Fairtrade Gold market much larger than wha
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