Mining into Extinction
Going Green
English - January 20, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBEarth Sciences Science Natural Sciences climate climate change ecology recycling going green Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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One of the topics taught in GCSE chemistry is looking at the Earth's resources and looking in particular when metals are likely to run out the report they looked at was done in 2011 and suggested that current production levels when it was likely metals would run out. We thought it would be interesting to have a look 10 years on at how much of these metals are left now.
So are we running out of metals, are we mining ourselves into extinction