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Series
Worldwatch paper volume 109
Publisher
Worldwatch Institute
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
15) Responsible mining: case studies in managing social and environmental risks in the developed world
Publisher
Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration (SME)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate...