Joe Sacco: "We exploit the planet and return poison to it"

Sometimes you have to dig a lot to discover the truth.

Joe Sacco (Malta, 60 years old) knows this well, who ventured hundreds of meters underground.

Because there was a time, in the early 1900s, when the Giant mine in northwestern Canada worked miracles.

Whoever entered came out rich.

Bullion hunters multiplied.

Until the golden river emptied and many dreams ended in bankruptcy.

The business came like a flood, and then it dried up.

But years of mining at the mine left a colossal amount of arsenic trioxide, a deadly dust.

"It is a biological hazard", underlines the drawing ...

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