Sapphires

Sapphires

Mining
1. Labour
  1. Exploitation of Workers
    1. Child labour
      1. Children not going to school
        Continues the cycle of poverty
    2. Low wages
      1. Poverty
        Which leads to
      2. Little to no health insurance
    3. Unsafe working conditions
      1. Health problems for workers
  2. Population increases around mines
    1. Disrupts local economy as people abandon ordinary jobs
      1. Increases health risks
2. Environmental Impact
  1. Deforestation
    1. Destruction of natural beauty
      1. Decreases tourism oppotunities
    2. Destruction of animal and plant habitats
    3. Clearing trees encourages risk for erosion
  2. Sedimentation and Silation
    1. Pebbles and dirt from sieving and washing end up in waterways
      1. Disrupts ecosystems
        Reduces photosynthetic capacity
        Clogging animal filters used for respiration and feeding
        Plant and animal life goes extinct
      2. Destroys natural beauty
        Reduces tourism oppotunities
Transporting
1. Environmental Impacts
  1. Creates air pollution
    1. Contributes to global warming
      1. Climate change impacts the entire planet
    2. Lowers air quality
  2. Noise pollution
  3. Lowers water quality
    1. Adversely impacts aquatic life
      1. Ripple effect throughout the ecosystems
  4. Lowers soil quality
    1. Destroys plant life
      1. Impacts animal life
  5. Influences biodiversity
  6. Land clearing to make room for roads
    1. Tar to make roads impacts landscape
  7. Fuel needed to power vehicles must be mined
    1. Similar impacts to sapphire mining
2. Labour
  1. Low wages
  2. Mining is dangerous work

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	Created by Eliza Jane over 9 years ago