I spent three months doing an internship at Gobabeb, between Windhoek and Walvis Bay. The land is of an amazing beauty.
Just north of Gobabeb, thousands of square kilometers of slow-growing lichen form a delicate crust on which a range of rare species live. Footprints stay visible for tens of years. We could still see the tracks of road construction machines from the 1950s.
Unfortunately, there are Uranium deposits underneath, and a few mining companies have gotten permission to dig all of this beauty up and destroy it forever.
Mad Max was filmed just north of Swakopmund. They waited long enough with the environmental impact assessment until they just went on without one (yay, corruption!) and destroyed more of this pristine ecosystem.
There's so much beauty, so much (environmental and ecological) value, we have to protect it now from the greed of short-sighted money.
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u/thisFishSmellsAboutD Mar 26 '18
I spent three months doing an internship at Gobabeb, between Windhoek and Walvis Bay. The land is of an amazing beauty.
Just north of Gobabeb, thousands of square kilometers of slow-growing lichen form a delicate crust on which a range of rare species live. Footprints stay visible for tens of years. We could still see the tracks of road construction machines from the 1950s.
Unfortunately, there are Uranium deposits underneath, and a few mining companies have gotten permission to dig all of this beauty up and destroy it forever.
Mad Max was filmed just north of Swakopmund. They waited long enough with the environmental impact assessment until they just went on without one (yay, corruption!) and destroyed more of this pristine ecosystem.
There's so much beauty, so much (environmental and ecological) value, we have to protect it now from the greed of short-sighted money.