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Wangari Maathai
• More than 100 years of gold mining in South Africa
• Radioactivity contamination of land during early years of
mining due to lack of regulatory control
• Continuous deposition
of radioactive dust from Tailings
Storage Facilities (TSFs)
• Tailings material run-off onto land occupied by the public
... Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb"
"Let the globe, if nothing
else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved,
we grew.
That even as we hurt,
we hoped.
That even as we tired,
we tried"