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More nefarious are companies like De Beers, who are making amends for their sale of blood diamonds by donating prosthetics to war-torn African countries.
My mother's mother left Europe in a hurry without her husband, but with her three-year-old daughter and diamonds sewn into the hem of her skirt.
Marco Tempest: For those of you who don't play cards, a deck of cards is made up of four different suits: hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades.
So a few years later, and it's now 1997, and I'm in Angola undercover investigating blood diamonds.
But it wasn't about blood diamonds.
A city could find oil or diamonds underground and it would not be so valuable as road space.
This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari, more valuable than diamonds to the world's largest diamond producer and celebrated in 2014 as our planet's 1000th UNESCO World Heritage Site.
And from that slightly crazy question, over two decades and many campaigns later, including alerting the world to the problem of blood diamonds funding war, from that crazy question, Global Witness is now an 80-strong team of campaigners, investigators, journalists and lawyers.
And we're doing this because so many of the countries rich in natural resources like oil or diamonds or timber are home to some of the poorest and most dispossessed people on the planet.
You probably said or were told at some point that diamonds are forever, right?
OK, currently there are 45,000 people a month dying in the Congo, as a consequence of the war there over coltan and diamonds and other things.
The diamonds are clearly more valuable.
Why? Aren't diamonds still more valuable?
If you're like most people, you'll first choose enough water to last the trip, and then as many diamonds as you can carry.
This is because of something called marginal utility, and it means that when you choose between diamonds and water, you compare utility obtained from every additional bottle of water to every additional diamond.
The first bottle of water is worth more to you than any amount of diamonds, but eventually, you have all the water you need.
That's when you begin to choose diamonds over water.
Those interested in blood diamonds or exotic art, for instance, could share information about how the offshore world was being used to hide the trade in both of those commodities.
Lauderdale area has eight soccer fields and eight baseball diamonds and 20 tennis courts, but look at the road that takes you to that location, and would you let your child bike on it?
These are not diamonds, not really.
And we realized that 42 percent is made out of carbon, and carbon, of course, under high pressure, you get ... diamonds.
Blood diamonds, smuggled emeralds, timber, that is cut right from under the poorest.
(Audience: Seven of diamonds.)
LG: Seven of diamonds.
(Audience: Diamonds.)
LG: Diamonds, good.
(Audience: Ten of diamonds.)
LG: Ten of diamonds, yeah.
Ten of diamonds.
Ace of diamonds.
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