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powera on April 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: El Salvador bans metal mining in world first

#globalization

El Salvador is a small country with no pretenses of being self-sufficient. It doesn't matter how silly the local laws are.

badosu on April 29, 2017 [–]

There's a limit to which resources you'd want/be able to be self-sufficient, you must make trade-offs.

Even big countries may lack some rare metals or fossil fuels.

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