New book ‘102 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground‘ spotlights global reclamation projects
Stories of reinvented coal mining regions, regenerated communities and rebuilt ecosystems are told in a new book published this month.
Setting aside the recent stumbles, China and the rest of the developing world have been voracious consumers of copper and petroleum and the charts below are reminders of how far they have come.
Note the steep upward lines below in an infographic by W.E.R.I., which notes that demand for commodities “. . . is expanding more rapidly than its economic might.”