YouTube bombarded viewers with advertisements for Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba, an hour-long propaganda piece produced by the World Gold Council and starring Idris Elba of Cyberpunk 2077 fame (and nothing else). As one may count on, it is an hour of fluff whitewashing the bloody historical past of African gold mining and downplaying the gold trade’s function in propping up apartheid for the sake of income, put collectively by folks calling themselves the World Gold Council like a bunch of C-list Bond villains. Not even Elba appears to be like like he needs to be there, however a paycheck is a paycheck.
If you are going to interact with this in any respect, although, do not watch the gold documentary itself: watch YouTuber Folding Concepts’ response, which breaks down every level made within the documentary and explains a bit about the actual historical past of gold- the exact factor the WGC needs to cowl up.
I personally cannot look forward to the inevitable “fossil fuels are good, truly” followup. Perhaps they’re going to get Willem Dafoe!
