What do you know about mining? | CATAPA – Generation Transition

What do you know about mining?

In this short, educational animation, YLNM Network member CATAPA summarises the negative impacts of mining and shares practical ways for ordinary people to help move the world away from extractivism and towards a circular economy.

To find out more about CATAPA’s work to support social movements worldwide, visit their website. 

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