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Jan 12, 2010
"I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself." --Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? I Don't.
Jeffrey Lee is not interested in the soaring price of uranium, which could make him one of the world's richest men. "This is my country. Look, it's beautiful and I fear somebody will disturb it," he says, waving his arm across a view of rocky land surrounded by Kakadu National Park, where the French energy giant Areva wants to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium worth more than $5 billion. Mr Lee, the shy 36-year-old sole member of the Djok clan in Australia and the senior custodian of the Koongarra uranium deposit, has decided never to allow the ecologically sensitive land to be mined.
BE THE CHANGE
Take a conscious step today to preserve something you value.
