If you were given the chance to successfully rob any place in the world for once, which place would you choose?
If you take my advice, then choose this address. 33 Liberty Street, New York. Zip code 10045. Go to the basement here. There's 2.5 trillion dollars worth of gold. Nowhere else in the world is this big reserve. This place is the wallet of the Federal Reserve Bank And this gold is not theirs. It belongs to different countries and institutions all over the world. This six and a half thousand tons of gold has been kept in such a safe way that it has been a hundred years since it was made and despite knowing all this, no one even tried to rob it.
Its entry door is made of steel and weighs nine tonnes. It is in a frame of 140 tonnes steel and concrete. Motion sensor and 24 hour surveillance. Not a single person knows the access code. Three separate people to enter it. One has to put his own code for, even if it is just changing one bulb. Five hundred eight thousand gold bricks, each worth between six and seven thousand dollars. The basement is located just feet down the road. It was made in September 1924 and most gold was transferred here in WWII. At one time there was twelve thousand tonnes of gold here but the monetary value of gold decreased due to the diminishing.
Gold is Chemically isolated which makes it safe from rust, and its chemically inert, looks charming and it's prized for it's beauty. These qualities make it unique and make it the center of financial affairs for a long time.
The discovery of this shiny metal, from the mass murder of humans, from symbols of love to settlement of new settlements, from failed attempts of chemists to run economies across the world, stories have been made.
But the darkest aspect of searching for gold is the extremely negative effect it has on the environment of its search. There is no good way to extract it. Since humans value it, the result is that if somewhere it is extremely small Unlike other metals, mining becomes profitable. When the ground is dug, the ratio of waste material in the coal is the same, i.e. the amount of soil extracted is half the coal. And similarly one out of four hundred parts is copper, while in the case of gold it is one out of fifty lakhs.
An average of twenty tons of water is contaminated to extract gold as much as a gold ring. And as a byproduct, Acid is scattered in the atmosphere. Some of the gold, the Romans mined two thousand years ago, would also have been locked in the same wallet but the acid from gold mining has long lasting impact on environment. The effects are still harming the environment and aquatic life in the UK even two thousand years later.
Gold exploration in Peru has damaged the Amazon rainforest. Humans and animals in particular, and forests at large due to the moth. The mine pit dug in Grassburg, Indonesia is so large it can be seen from space. And every year eight crore tonnes of debris is dedicated to the rivers.
Why do humans take this yellow metal out of the chest of the earth and put it back inside the earth? His reasons then have a long line of its own.