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Metal Minerals Scarcity and the Elements of Hope

Posted by Rembrandt on July 9, 2009 - 10:53am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: a.m. diederen, alcatraz conference, mineral scarcity [list all tags]

This is a presentation by Dr. A. M. Diederen, given at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. It can be downloaded here: Global Resource Depletion: Metal minerals scarcity and the Elements of Hope, PDF 24 slides, 0.5 MB


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Slide 1
If policy does not change, the ongoing growth in global consumption of metals will cause shortages, aggravate energy scarcity and obstruct the transition towards a sustainable economy.

For my analysis the collective work presented by ASPO-members and at TheOilDrum has proven to be an invaluable source of information. I would like to especially mention the work of Prof. Ugo Bardi, because he has inspired me to look further into the issue of metal minerals depletion.

This presentation elaborates on my paper “”Metal minerals scarcity: A call for managed austerity and the elements of hope”, published at the website TheOilDrum.com on May 4, 2009 (http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5239) and at the TNO website on June 24, 2009 (http://www.tno.nl/).

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