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Carter Bill - Boom Bust Boom A Story About Copper The Metal That Runs The World - Paperback
Carter Bill - Boom Bust Boom A Story About Copper The Metal That Runs The World - Paperback
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Description: This informative and thought - provoking account of civilization's complete dependence on copper and what extracting it from the earth really means for people nature and the global economy is ';the best sort of journalism: beautifully written rich in detail and impossible to ignore (Sebastian Junger). Copper is a miraculous and contradictory metal essential to nearly every human enterprise. For most of recorded history this remarkably pliable and sturdy substance has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by lining their hulls with it. Today this metal can be found in every house car airplane cell phone computer and home appliance around the world including in all the new so - called green technologies. Yet the history of copper extraction and our present relationship with the metal are fraught with profound difficulties. Copper mining causes irrevocable damage to the Earth releasing arsenic cyanide sulfuric acid and other deadly pollutants into the air and water. And the mines themselves have significant effects on the economies and wellbeing of the communities where they are located. Now Carter delivers a blazing and fact - rich narrative that helps us understand the paradoxical relationship we have with a substance whose necessity to civilization costs the environment and the people who mine it dearly. Starting in his own backyard in the old mining town of Bisbee Arizonawhere he discovers that the dirt in his garden contains double the acceptable level of arseniche follows the story of copper to the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia; to the ';ring at the London Metal Exchange where a select group of traders buy and sell enormous amounts of the metal; and to an Alaskan salmon run threatened by mining. Part social history part mining - town exploration and part environmental investigation this is a work of first - rate journalism that fascinates on every level.
Title: Boom Bust Boom A Story About Copper The Metal That Runs The World
Author(s): Carter Bill
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781439136584
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/31/2021
Category: Rocks, Minerals & Fossils
Description: This informative and thought - provoking account of civilization's complete dependence on copper and what extracting it from the earth really means for people nature and the global economy is ';the best sort of journalism: beautifully written rich in detail and impossible to ignore (Sebastian Junger). Copper is a miraculous and contradictory metal essential to nearly every human enterprise. For most of recorded history this remarkably pliable and sturdy substance has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by lining their hulls with it. Today this metal can be found in every house car airplane cell phone computer and home appliance around the world including in all the new so - called green technologies. Yet the history of copper extraction and our present relationship with the metal are fraught with profound difficulties. Copper mining causes irrevocable damage to the Earth releasing arsenic cyanide sulfuric acid and other deadly pollutants into the air and water. And the mines themselves have significant effects on the economies and wellbeing of the communities where they are located. Now Carter delivers a blazing and fact - rich narrative that helps us understand the paradoxical relationship we have with a substance whose necessity to civilization costs the environment and the people who mine it dearly. Starting in his own backyard in the old mining town of Bisbee Arizonawhere he discovers that the dirt in his garden contains double the acceptable level of arseniche follows the story of copper to the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia; to the ';ring at the London Metal Exchange where a select group of traders buy and sell enormous amounts of the metal; and to an Alaskan salmon run threatened by mining. Part social history part mining - town exploration and part environmental investigation this is a work of first - rate journalism that fascinates on every level.
Title: Boom Bust Boom A Story About Copper The Metal That Runs The World
Author(s): Carter Bill
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781439136584
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/31/2021
Category: Rocks, Minerals & Fossils
