Scarcity of resources

Fear of resource depletion is or will become the driving force behind a repair economy — to the extent that it does not already exist in most people’s lives. The use of raw materials just reshuffles them around the globe. In a few centuries, coltan mining will mean digging for ancient mobile phones in the rubble of former cities. Every openness emerges from physicality, and an average Google server plant consumes as much electricity as a city of 500,000. Who knows about ‘open mining’?

MASS-DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON ➝ INTO THE OPEN / JOHN THACKARA


PHOTO: LEONARDO F FREITAS ➝ WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/LEOFFREITAS/1469376131

OLD STYLE STRIP MINING


PHOTO: STEPHEN COLDRINGTON ➝ COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG

CONFLICT MINERALS ➝ FAIRPHONE / JENS MIDDEL


PHOTO: ROB LAVINSKY ➝ IROCKS.COM

COLTAN, CONFLICT MINERAL IN EVERY CELL PHONE


PHOTO: KAREN HAYES ➝ PACT, INC

OIL SLICK AFTER DISASTER IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, MAY 24 2010


PHOTO: NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/GSFC

BURNING OIL WELLS, KUWAIT 1992 ➝ OPEN RE:SOURCE DESIGN / SOENKE ZEHLE


PHOTO: US MILITARY ➝ WWW.DEFENSEIMAGERY.MIL

COVER OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, JUNE 2004 ➝ SHAREABLE / NEAL GORENFLO


COVER PHOTO: SARAH LEEN ➝ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, NGM.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM

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