Why read Environmental and Economic Sustainability?

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Never before has the quest to balance the needs of people, the environment, and the economy been so important. While sustainability has been widely taken up by governments and business, the world has continued to move in increasingly unsustainable directions, from continued dependence on fossil energy to rising greenhouse gas…

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1 author picked Environmental and Economic Sustainability as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Lex Fullarton

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I found this book in a charity bin. That is definitely the wrong place for it, but it shows a general lack of understanding of the critical message that it carries. If industry must mine the Earth’s resources and assume that the planet’s resources need to be exploited for the good of modern society and to share its wealth, then it must be done in such a way as not to destroy the natural environment when the rich minerals are extracted from below the Earth’s surface.

This book details how that can be done. It should be compulsory reading for…

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