“Green Mining” Won’t Prevent Ecological Damage by Global Rush for Raw Materials

The United Nations’ flagship Global Resources Outlook report is the portrait of a juggernaut. Due to be published later this month by the UN’s International Resource Panel, it highlights how global consumption of raw materials, having increased four-fold since 1970, is set to rise by a further 60% by 2060. Already, the technosphere — the totality of human-made products, from airports to Zimmer...

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