Mining morality: prospecting for ethics in a wounded world
In this book, William P. George examines both the morality of mining - what's good and not so good about resource extraction - and the mining of morality, thereby bringing mining closer to the center of personal and collective moral consciousness.
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- Full title :Mining morality : prospecting for ethics in a wounded world / William P. George.
Summary
In this book, William P. George examines both the morality of mining - what's good and not so good about resource extraction - and the mining of morality, thereby bringing mining closer to the center of personal and collective moral consciousness.
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Place of Publication:Lanham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 305 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781978707931, 1978707932
- oclc:on1119624133
- LC Classification:HD9506.A2
- Dewey Decimal:174/.9622
Table of Contents
Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. GETTING READY; Chapter One. Introduction: Mining and Moral Consciousness; Chapter Two. Assembling the Prospector's Tools; Part II. PROSPECTING FOR ETHICS ON EARTH AND IN OUTER SPACE; Chapter Three. Butte, Montana: "The Richest Hill on Earth" and a Moral Morass; Chapter Four. Nauru: From Pleasant Island to Phosphate Plunder; Chapter Five. Seabed Mining: From Insight to International Law; Chapter Six. Uranium in Africa and Beyond: A Matter of Being and Time; Chapter Seven. Asteroid Mining: Ethics for Aliens or for Us?
Part III. A PROSPECTOR'S REPORTChapter Eight. From Prospecting for Ethics to Mining Morality; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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