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Ugo Bardi on “Plundering the Planet” (part 1)
Quelle: www.kontext-tv.de
More than 40 years after the report „The Limits to Growth“, the Club of Rome presented its new report: „Plundering the Planet“. Its author Ugo Bardi explains the consequences of overexploitation. Growing energy costs for the extraction of minerals from less and less concentrated ores could soon lead to shortages of key resources like oil, uranium or copper. Even worse are the ecological costs of mining: radioactive materials and heavy metals poison the earth’s ecological systems while growing CO2 emissions cause catastrophic climate change.
Ugo Bardi, professor for physical chemistry at the University of Florence, author of the Report to the Club of Rome “Plundering the Planet”
6 Comments on "Ugo Bardi on “Plundering the Planet” (part 1)"
J-Gav on Fri, 28th Jun 2013 12:44 pm
A good overview of resource depletion issues – EROI, diminishing ore concentrations etc.
Arthur on Fri, 28th Jun 2013 1:37 pm
Probably wrong video? No reference to Bardi, Club of Rome, CO2 or EROEI.
GregT on Fri, 28th Jun 2013 5:27 pm
Just a bunch of odd looking people, speaking some strange foreign language, with a very brief guest ‘appearance’ of Naom Chomsky. 🙂
GregT on Fri, 28th Jun 2013 5:33 pm
Oops, my bad, after the first video ends the second video loads with Bardi’s talk.
Arthur on Fri, 28th Jun 2013 5:44 pm
Now I see, thanks Greg. It makes more sense to download it first and watch later, as the site is very slow. There is summary on youtube, which is much faster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFFGYwOQX4
rollin on Fri, 28th Jun 2013 6:10 pm
Using old nuclear warheads to power nuclear plants? There goes the standard nuclear power system down the tubes.
It sounds like things are the same as when I first heard of this 40 years ago.
It also seems that profit is the biggest driver for destruction of the environment.