Non-Renewables

Ugo Bardi

Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet

A few centuries ago humans ignited a fossil fire, liberating stocks of carbon long-buried in the Earth’s crust. Since then this fire has powered civilization, enabling the extraction of all other minerals. But it is now flickering, its fuel almost exhausted, even as the waste it produced threatens the biosphere. […]