Mining hope
The Discovery Pod: Season 2, Episode 7
Welcome to The Discovery Pod, where we talk to leading experts from the 成人大片 about solutions to society鈥檚 most pressing challenges.聽
Ironically, humanity鈥檚 push for sustainability will require greater quantities of mineral resources than ever. To reach the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development goals by 2050, for example, we鈥檙e going to have to mine more copper in the next three decades than we have in the entire history of civilisation. How can we do that sustainably?
Our host, Isobel Marshall, unpacks the issues with environmental engineer Professor Michael Goodsite, and PhD candidate Tom Payten, whose work focuses on the development of real-time, mineral-specific sensors.