Climate Change 2.0: The Worrying Silence Over Metal Consumption
Our increasing consumption of very limited resources such as gold and copper, due to technological demands for them. Yet we are passively allowing this concerning trend to continue, and are drifting towards potential chaos.
In the face of huge environmental issues such as plastic pollution and climate change, we should be learning the lessons of our mistakes thus far, which led us to these problems: complacency, inaction, and ignorance.
And yet, our response to the growing issue of the resourcing of copper, gold, and aluminium has been lacklustre at best. In true human fashion, we’ve decided that we’ll just find it in other ways, for example with space mining. Now, whilst I don’t doubt human capability to achieve this with the aid of the scientific method, I wouldn’t pin resource sustainability on such an idea.
Because, until we have mass production and harvesting with space mining, we can’t say that it will solve our issues for certain. Perhaps it will be economically unviable, arrive simply too late, or even be unpracticable altogether.
