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Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend or The Environment’s Worst Enemy

Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend or The Environment’s Worst Enemy. Sabrina Tan Jazz Randall Gabby Badurek. WHY DO WE NEED IT?. 20% of diamonds are used for jewelry 80% are used for cutting tools, polishing hard metals, phonograph, videodiscs, and laboratory instruments.

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Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend or The Environment’s Worst Enemy

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  1. Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend or The Environment’s Worst Enemy Sabrina Tan Jazz Randall Gabby Badurek

  2. WHY DO WE NEED IT? • 20% of diamonds are used for jewelry • 80% are used for cutting tools, polishing hard metals, phonograph, videodiscs, and laboratory instruments.

  3. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES • Accessing diamonds means overburden. Overburden is removing natural resources from our Earth and disturbing our surroundings. • Use of energy • Recyclable

  4. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES CONT. • Example 1: Soil used to be rich, but now are mosquito infested in Sierra Leone. • Example 2: Large areas of land has been ruined and the water supply is poisoned in Angola.

  5. CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES • Conflict Diamonds (Blood Diamonds) – rebels from western/central Africa, Sierra Leone, Angola, Ivory Coast, and Democratic Repuclic of Congo (DRC), would sell diamonds illegally. • The money goes to their countries military actions. • 71 governments go by the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme.

  6. WHAT DOES THE INDUSTRY SAY IT’S DOING? • Diamond-mining destroys the environment around it. • Example: Loss of soil and plantation fields due to mining debris in Sierra Leone. • Millions of people have died, suffered injuries, or been displaced because of conflict diamond trade.

  7. HOW TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM? • More governments should get involved and help donate to stop this conflict-diamond issue because it’s killing innocent people. People are suffering just because all of this money is going towards their countries military actions. • http://www.stopblooddiamonds.org/

  8. CONFLICT-FREE DIAMONDS • Retailers can’t guarantee you a conflict-free diamond. • This means, get the specific details about the diamond you want to purchase! • Purchase diamonds from Canada because Kimberly Process. Also, retailers abide by this “Code of Conduct.” • Ask for: description of diamond, Diamond Identification Number, a certificate, retailer’s return policy, date of purchase, and name/address of retailer. • http://www.canadiandiamondcodeofconduct.ca/EN_consumer_information.htm

  9. OUR RESOURCES • http://geology.com/articles/blood-diamonds.shtml • http://www.thirdworldtravellers.com/Africa/Death-Diamonds.html • www.diamondfacts.org/conflict/index.html/background.html • http://www.greengovr.com/body/clothing/jewlry/tips/choose-conflict-free-diamonds

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