Good morning,
As you are more than aware, extractive mining provides resources that are deemed essential to the basic needs of civilisation and the requirements of the high-technology, 'developed' and 'urbanised' world that most of us live in. Across the world, mining contributes to erosion, sinkholes, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, significant use of water resources, dammed rivers and ponded waters, wastewater disposal issues, acid mine drainage and contamination of soil, ground and surface water, all of which can lead to health issues in local populations. Overall, erosion, flooding, deforestation and the contamination and consumption of ground and surface waters all act as stressors on the health of local communities, depleting food production capacities and delivering harmful elements into the food chain. 'Intergenerational equity of wealth' is a concept endorsed, advocated and propagated by 'The Goenchi Mati Movement' and 'Goa Foundation' in Goa (as a pilot case study) with its proposed impact across the extractive mining regions of India. The underlying premises in defining 'Intergenerational equity of wealth' as stated by ''The Goenchi Mati Movement' are: "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” and they, therefore, advocate twin principles of custodianship of the environment and intergenerational equity – to tackle colossal damage caused by rampant corruption and human greed." Through this proposition they plan to resume "sustainable" mining in Goa and appropriate the District Mineral Foundation Trust Fund into a "Goenchi Mati Permanent Fund" towards paying out a Citizen's Dividend. This proposition is a concerted invidious strategy to undermine the entire philosophy of indigenous and ecological movements. Not only is this a socially dangerous, inequality-propagating proposition and Brahmanised greenwash. This premise threatens the livelihoods of tribal and other dispossessed and displaced, further perpetuating an increased marginalisation and impoverishing communities through its proposed five-point agenda. This is an attempt to fix a legacy hierarchy, ownership of land and maintain caste tradition. Thus this Goenchi Mati and Goa Foundation agenda remains a perversion and distortion of the ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) seventh-generation principle and philosophy. There can be no tabula rasa when we examine the questions of extractive industrial mining. Similarly, there is no singular Goan identity. Towards bringing about this proposed objective of sustainable and equitable mining, there has been mass propagation and dissemination by a minuscule and exclusively privileged cohort through various media and academic sources talking and selling this idea. Across time each article that discusses intergenerational equity of wealth cross-references the other to create an ouroboros and an appearance of acquiescence and Brahmanised truth-validity through publishing. Sociologists and artists now perform work based on these texts through Iron-mining, industry-funded grants and festivals through their cultural and CSR activities. Through processes of concentrated lobbying, this proposition of intergenerational equity now finds mention in India’s National Mineral Policy 2019. Surprisingly, no discourse of critique or opposition is recorded or presented. Attached to this email is a paper "*Intergenerational Equity of Wealth - an 'other' mining framework towards a continued exploitation*" - as .pdf as well as an online link (*https://www.academia.edu/s/223139ff7f* <https://www.academia.edu/s/223139ff7f>) [*UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE: ATTRIBUTION NON-COMMERCIAL SHARE ALIKE*] to initiate a more socio-culturally diverse and inclusive discourse. Warm regards Wency Mendes
