The hidden cost of your jewelry | Cleo Escarez | TEDxBelltown Women

So, check this out. Imagine a 9-year-old girl named Angelica. She wakes before sunrise in a remote village in the Philippines.Her hands already calloused from years of labor. She doesn't go to school. Instead, she walks barefoot to a nearby gold mine where she spends most of her days waste deep in toxic slurry, sifting for flexcks of gold.Cyanide and mercury swirl around her, silently poisoning her body. She's one of thousands of children trapped in a cycle of environmental degradation, labor exploitation, ...