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The Magic of Rare Earth Elements & the Hypocrisy of Clean Energy What is the purpose of the game Monopoly? To drive your opponents into poverty so that you get rich. This is the meaning of success that we all grew up on. Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek Nomads of Mongolia Mongolia. I’ve always wanted to go there. About seven years ago, I packed what I had into a storage unit (I’ve never been big on material possessions, I’m a serious wanderer) and took off with a small bag, my most important possession being my computer to write on, and began traveling wherever I wanted to go. This didn’t mean staying in resort hotels, it meant going off the beaten track and living in places for periods of time, from a few months in Sucre, Bolivia, Costa Rica and the Sahara Desert, to almost three years in Luxor, Egypt, and many places in-between. I made it back to Phoenix, Arizona from Egypt about six months into the pandemic. Mongolia could well have been next on my list. But now, with the way things are

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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled Wrong Kind of Green Aug 11, 2021 Social Engineering , Uncategorized NPR September 11, 2020 By Laura Sullivan   Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR Note: An audio version of this story aired on NPR’s Planet Money.  Listen to the episode here. Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is buried. “To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust,” she said. “I had been lying to people … unwittingly.” Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash t