Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal that Runs the World
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007EDOKWA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 115 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The scientific/mining part of this book is full or errors" according to RM. The scientific/mining part of this book is full or errors and is generally lazily written. His comments on mining/geology/engineering/chemistry are riddled with errors that could have been prevented with even a cursory attempt at fact checking. Whatever merits his comments on the social impacts of mining, the whole book is an exercise in NIMBYism, preconceived conclusions and "truthiness".. Copper - a truly double edged sword to our society. D. B. KANE Bill Carter's "Boom, Bust, Boom" is an excellent book that will wake you up to the importance and dangers of the world's most extraordinary metal - copper. Copper is a cheap conductive metal that is used in modern society's everything. Beautiful and extremely beneficial to the human race, copper also has a dark side: mining and extracting it from the earth is extremely toxic - sulfuric acid, arsenic, cyanide - just to name a few, that poison the land along with the aquifer underneath.The subtitle says it all - "A Story About Copper, The Metal That Runs The World." Bill's book lay. Ex-Patty said Personal and Informational. The author gives a lot of personal information which provides the book with an added dimension of personalization and how copper has affected him, his family and those he met while researching the book. Sometimes the opinions are fun and other times, I just skipped over them because all I wanted out of the book was hard facts. But overall, his story within the information is worthwhile and often sounds like your just listening to a friend's story. Carter imparted a great deal of information that was well researched, but personal enough not to become dull and archaic. I'm really g
The result is a work of first-rate journalism that fascinates on every level.. Yet the history of copper extraction and our present relationship with the metal are fraught with profound difficulties. Today, the metal can be found in every house, car, airplane, cell phone, computer, and home appliance the world over, including in all the new, so-called green technologies. With Red Summer and Fools Rush In, Bill Carter has earned a reputation as an on-the-ground journalist adept at connecting the local elements of a story to its largest consequences. Boom, Bust, Boom is a highly readable account—part social history, part mining-town exploration, and part environmental investigation. From “a first-rate writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer” (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall), a sweeping account of civilization’s complete dependence on copper and what it all means for people, nature, and the global economy.A SWEEPING ACCOUNT OF CIVILIZATION&rsq
He has written for Rolling Stone, Outside, Men’s Journal, and other publications. . Bill Carter is the author of Red Summer: The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village and Fools Rush In: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
You wouldn’t think a book about copper would be an exciting read, but it is, because the story of copper mining is also the story of industrial innovation, technological revolution, and social and ecological change on a grand scale. Nor would you be using a staggering number of modern-day conveniences and essentials—no phones, no lights, no motorcars. Its lead content was 32-percent higher than normal levels, but that was nothing compared to its arsenic, which was 100-percent higher than what’s considered accepta