Tag: recycling

• May 2, 2023

  Gold mining is one of the most destructive and unnecessary industries – here’s how to end it

  

  By Stephen Lezak, University of Oxford, originally published at theconversation.com The 16th-century King Ferdinand of Spain sent his subjects abroad with the command: “Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards, get gold.” His statement rings true today. Gold remains one of the world’s most expensive substances, but mining it is one of the…
• August 8, 2022

  The plastic crisis has deep corporate roots: to protect our planet, they need to be exposed

  

  Alice Mah, University of Warwick This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the course because they were curious to see what their desire to live more sustainably had to do with sociology. By the third week – after a deep dive into the troubling connections between…