[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /viewtopic.php on line 988: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /viewtopic.php on line 988: getdate() [function.getdate]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 4505: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3706) [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 4507: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3706) [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 4508: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3706) [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 4509: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3706) Pitt's Environmental Hub - View topic - Peak Everything: Rare Metals Ethics Edition
Article from the (almost always excellent) Yale e360 site on our dependence on rare metals and whether our simultaneous demand for them and desire to protect our environment simply pushes destruction to other areas of the world (short answer: yes, it does).
I think the questions are two-fold: Would you rather have modern technology or avoid mining? And what other solutions might exist?
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Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:06 pm
ChrisT
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Re: Peak Everything: Rare Metals Ethics Edition
Well the answer's pretty simple--we mine asteroids!
No really though, this is a big issue. It seems that whatever we do seems to have really negative impacts and that nothing we do will ever approach sustainability. Maybe, we have to give up this way of life and go towards primitism.
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