 But this race for gold is bringing on the destruction of one of the last earthly paradises, the world's largest tropical forest, the lungs of our planet, where everything and anything can be paid in gold.As a result, a gold ingot cycle has developed—with its batch of insolvents, prostitutes, godfathers, traffickers, whether in French Guiana, Brazil or Suriname.Gold has brought upon disease, mercury, crime, alcoholism.