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An international team of researchers, led by the University of Delaware's Saleem Ali, says global resource governance and sharing of geoscience data is needed to address challenges facing future mineral supply.
Specifically of concern are a range of technology minerals, which are an essential ingredient in everything from laptops and cell phones to hybrid or electric cars to solar panels and copper wiring for homes. However, base metals like copper are also a matter of immense concern.
The research team, which included experts from academic, government and industrial institutions across five continents, the U.S., Europe, South Africa, Australia and South America, reported their findings today in a peer-reviewed paper in Nature.
"There are treaties on climate change, biodiversity, migratory species and even waste management of organic chemicals, but there is no international mechanism to govern how mineral supply should be coordinated," said Ali, the paper's lead author and Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at UD.
The researchers reviewed data and demand forecasts on the sustainability of global mineral supplies in coming decades. The study showed that mining exploration is not keeping up with future demand for minerals and recycling in and of itself would not be able to meet the demand either.
Saleem H. Ali, et al. Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance. Nature, 2017; 543 (7645): 367 DOI: 10.1038/nature21359
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(Score: 2) by sgleysti on Monday March 27 2017, @07:28AM (2 children)
Are you saying that my comment is verbally dense? There's not even an entire sentence before the quote.
I enjoy reading all sorts of things, including novels, news articles, electronics datasheets, and file format specifications. It greatly surprises me when my coworkers don't read or complain about having to read something. One recent case was an email containing three labelled internet links and two sentences explaining what the links were for. This situation is frustrating, as complaining about having to read that email seemed tantamount to complaining about my attempt to communicate in the first place.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Monday March 27 2017, @07:07PM (1 child)
Verbally dense, no, your comment is not. My thoughts started out as a cynical reflection in regards to reading comprehension on the internet in general and devolved from there into the MBA/Trump briefing format of my post and the preposterous accusation that your post was long winded. I know it is tradition carried over from the old site to not RTFA, and it is becoming more common for people to not even bothering to RTFS completely. However, I've witnessed a few times were people don't even bother to RTFC before replying to it--which is precisely what I wanted to lampoon. As NotSanguine [soylentnews.org] implied in his post [soylentnews.org] words are hard and perhaps should be banned.
It's hard to tell if your coworkers are extremely lazy or stupid. If I were in your situation, I'd be highly tempted to enlighten them across the head with the staff of education or encourage them by tossing the chair of self-motivation at them. While I wouldn't expect those methods to really fix your coworkers problems, it might fix your own problems by replacing them with other resolvable issues like an immediate lack of coworkers or unemployment.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by sgleysti on Tuesday March 28 2017, @05:05AM
encourage them by tossing the chair of self-motivation at them
The Ballmer is an oldie but a goodie; I like your style, sir. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!