GOLD MANIACS CHUPACABRING GHANA CHASING DREAMS: ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FOR GOLD

Gold chupacabras (illegal gold miners or galamsey) tearing up Mother Earth´s guts in Ghana. Source: scmp.com.

By Gundhramns Hammer
October 23, 2014
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For our purpose, we introduce the verb chupacabre (pron., tʃupaˈkaβer; 3rd person, chupacabres; p. & pp, chupacabred; g., chupacabring), derived from Spanish, chupar = to suck; and cabra = goat) here. Literally, goat-sucker, referring to the chupacabra, the mysterious cryptid creature that comes out at night to suck the blood of domestic animals around the world.

If you have been working like a mule, 9-5, 7 days a week, for 40 years, and all you get is a fucking retirement paycheque that is not enough to buy you a decent meal and let alone to pay the high rent, then you have been chupacabred to the hilt by whoever has fucked you up legally or illegally, drained you up of your vital juice. This would be a good example using this verb.

Thus, following this thread of thinking, we define chupacabring, as the process by which someone is sucked of his or her vital essence to the fullest until what is left is nothing but a bunch of bones and skin or something is left in poor condition or destroyed after exploitation, a barren land like the Moon, in the case of the environment.

In this sense, little by little, Ghana, for example, is being stripped, destroyed, poisoned with nasty chemicals (mercury), chupacabred by maniac people looking for gold. 

Some do it to barely scratch a living, a necessity to survive, and others out of greed.

In Ghana, both cases, poor or rich, legal or illegal gold miners (solamsey) or gold chupacabras are destroying Mother Nature, the one source that feeds them. 

Eventually, Ghana´s bloody gold will find its way to the rich nations to use it in high-tech gadgets for consumers located worldwide, to do, generally speaking, what it boils down to watching TV, exciting neural circuits with porno, e-shopping unnecessary things or e-talking a lot of shit to softens someone´s heart until one day he or she comes along with the hello, let´s go play lovey dovey!, an I love you! (meaning I want to fuck you) or, at the extreme end of this consumption chain,  to transmit an e-mail to inform an Earth´s buster that his millions have been transferred to a safe tax haven so that he may continue with his same Earth´s busting, amongst other things which in the end amount or sum up to nothings.

Gold in high-tech science? 

Just to give you an idea of the use and importance of gold in the computer field, according to Bleiwas & Kelly (2001), "1 metric ton (t) of electronic scrap from personal computers (PC’s) contains more gold than that recovered from 17 t of gold ore. In 1998, the amount of gold recovered from electronic scrap in the United States was equivalent to that recovered from more than 2 million metric tons (Mt) of gold ore and waste."

Anyway, throwing a bird´s-eye view and putting aside the exceptions, we are dealing with gadgets to do nothing earth-shaking.

Nothing really on the biospherical line, i.e., to take care of the nest, Earth, something which should be everybody´s concern. 

This anthopogeoclastic drama is typical of the human species, one that is still in its infancy.

Man, so far, despite his fancy satellites, creepy nanogadgets, mutagenic GM foods, killing drones and at the top of other sophisticated inventions, his nuclear contraptions to annihilate life, he basically behaves and acts as a fucking idiot, a fucking stupid beast in the long run.

So, it ain´t surprising what Homo insapiens are doing what they are doing to undo what it took Mother Nature millions of years to do in Ghana: The gold miners are fucking the land up chasing dreams of hitting it rich.

Dreams are dreams but no dream can be a dream without another dream that can be dreamed when there are no dreams to dream because you cannot dream which means you have run out of the power that powers your dreams because your dream life has come to an end, the total end of your dreams.

Now we come to the dreams, those dreams that slowly will leave people without any dreams.

Let us take a look at Ghana´s gold rush. Let us see how the gold chupabring is being done in Ghana (Videos 1-2):

Video 1. The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana. Uploader: The Guardian.

Video 2. Africa investigates: Ghana gold. Uploader: Al Jazeera English. 

Mon capitaine... All of this pourquoi?

Pour faire more DNA!

Mon Capitaine... What a complex and destructive way of making more DNA which may or may not lead to more DNA represented and swimming in people´s gene pool!

See you later alligators!
 

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