GEOG DQ Latin America

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Profit and an improved environment ' is what most developing Latin American countries are seeking after . Clean water may be the least we can do . Improving the life span of miners beyond 20 years , is the `more ' we can do

Think about people who go to work at age 18 . Imagine that they work for 20 years in a Bolivian mine , and then are near death at age 38 . In the U .S . many people are just getting their lives in full swing by age

br 38 . It is hard to image 38 being the end of life , when many of our citizens now live well into their 90s . Clean water and health care resources should be provided to Bolivian miners . It is understood that clean water alone cannot cure the health effects of mine by products

Trade agreements with Bolivia and developed nations - U .S . and E .U . - should contain initiatives to do exactly what is outlined in this article , conduct mining activities profitably with environmentally sound techniques . The Bolivian government should take a more proactive role in regulating the mining industry (Of course , it is not practical to put a moratorium on the country 's primary economic activity

The mining companies and cooperatives should do more to provide health care for miners . If there are mercy hospital facilities in the area then the government and mining company should cooperate to finance health care services . Mining companies would be more profitable with healthy workers . Also , decent health care would probably attract more workers to clean up efforts

Both the Bolivian government and developed nations need to participate in clean up efforts and in providing health care for miners . The country as well as the mine companies would benefit from increasing the life span of mine workers...