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CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOW  - SEPTEMBER 19TH 2022 Produced by Vivien LangfordAUSTRALIA'S GREEN EXTRACTIVISM AND  SACRIFICE ZONES  ABROAD? While  the climate  movement focusses on  going beyond coal, oil and gas, big business is driving a rush for  the rare earths and critical minerals needed for the transition to  Renewable energy with  storage. The Australian Mining Industry  claims to have standards that are world's best  practice. However, sacrifice zones are already being created  as they mine for  Lithium in WA and Copper in SA. What  will be the environmental consequences on our water  and how will they deal with radioactive waste?  Overseas,  Malaysians are protesting the radioactive waste from Australian Rare  earths processed over there  by Lynas. In Ecuador, the front line is to protect a cloud forest  of immense biodiversity from Gina  Rinehart's copper mining. In  Chile  they wanted a new constitution that  would have placed restrictions on mining making it more expensive to do business. When the c