Biology
Strictly speaking, sustainable development requires that
human activities are undertaken in such a manner that they
do not eliminate options for future generations. Clearly, once
a given mineral deposit has been mined to exhaustion, future
generations do not have the option of mining it again; hence
mining fails to qualify as sustainable development sensu
stricto (1). Consequently, mining can only ever, at best, aspire
to compatibility with sustainable development sensu lato,“Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability,
Newcastle University, U.K.”Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es101430e
Courtesy: https://pubs.acs.org
Copyright: 10.1021/es101430e 2011 American Chemical Society
