Glencore Holding Back Africa (Sumblog 5)

The video about Glencore and Africa that we watched in class really got me thinking about the people of Zambia and how Glencore has affected them. In the video it showed how Zambia had a lot of copper and Glencore wanted to make money off of them. Glencore pretty much took over the copper mining operations in Zambia and received most of the profit from the copper that Zambia was mining on their land. When Glencore took over they started to do things that harmed the people of that community in Zambia. They polluted their water sources with chemicals from the factory, thus making the Zambia natives very sick. The people of Zambia needed Glencore to survive so Glencore could take advantage of them however they wanted to.

Glencore ultimately was using the people of Zambia to make a huge profit off of them. They would reap the benefits of the hard manual labor the people of Zambia did. Glencore held back the country of Zambia from being modern and independent. They did not care about them but only cared about the money that people were making from them. The CEO of Glencore was also going to go away for a very long time for tax fraud until President Bill Clinton in his last few weeks as president, gave him a pardon from all of his crimes. The Glencore company had so much power that leaders of other countries and CEOs of other big businesses were contacting President Clinton and telling him to give a Pardon to Glencore's CEO.

I think this is ridiculous. How can someone not care at all about those people that were giving you such a huge profit. Glencore had not morals at the time and did not give a second look when the people of Zambia were becoming sick and dying because of the pollution. Big businesses need to stop taking advantage of other people like the people of Zambia. 

This is a great video that shows how Glencore not only has effected Zambia but also many other places in the world.