A world without mining

“Can you imagine a world without mining? The US Geological Survey Bulletin bluntly claimed in a 1983 issue that “without mining, there is nothing”.

Even those who are now striving to get us out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into by burning massive amounts of fossil fuels and destroying whole ecosystems in the past century, often find it hard to break out from ‘solutions’ based on more and more extraction.

It is now argued that we need to mine far more metals for the energy transition and digitalisation.”

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Fonte: The Ecologist, 3 de agosto de 2021.