The Real Cost of Plundering the Planet’s Resources
Our accelerating rates of extraction come with immense ecological and social consequences.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-real-cost-of-plundering-the-planets-resources
These days, Conway reckons, humanity mines, drains, and blasts more stuff out of the ground each year than it did in total during the roughly three hundred millennia between the birth of the species and the start of the Korean War. This comes with immense consequences, both ecological and social, even if we don’t attend to them