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“In Africa, China is merely doing what the colonialist did. They want
raw materials for their economic growth, just as the colonialists were
going into Africa and taking the natural resources, leaving people
poorer,” she told AFP in an interview in Johannesburg.
The stakes for the environment may even be larger this time round, she
warns.
“China is bigger, and the technology has improved… It is a disaster.”
Other than massive investment in Africa’s mines, China is also a big
market for elephant tusks and rhino horn, which has driven poaching of
these animals to alarming heights.
full:
http://www.rawstory.com/2014/02/anthropologist-jane-goodall-china-is-pillaging-africa-like-an-old-colonial-power/
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