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Der Abbau von Rohstoffen entwickelt sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten immer stärker zu einem ökologischen, ökonomischen, politischen und sozialen Problem mit globalen Auswirkungen. Extensive Abbaupraktiken und die Ausbeutung von Öko- und Sozialsystemen stellen eine der größten Umweltbelastungen unserer Zeit dar. Ihre Folgen sind vielerorts dramatisch, dennoch wird der Kampf um Ressourcen unvermindert fortgeführt. Da die Ressourcen auf der Erde endlich sind, wird nach immer neuen, teils surreal anmutenden Standorten gesucht, so wie beim Deep Sea Mining und Deep Space Mining. Into the deep wirft einen kritischen Blick auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart der Extraktion von Rohstoffen, die untrennbar mit Umweltzerstörung und Kolonialismus verbunden ist. Die vielschichtigen Zusammenhänge des Rohstoffabbaus in der Tiefsee und im Weltall werden beleuchtet, ebenso wie Formen von Widerstand und Aktivismus gegen die Ausbeutung von Menschen und Umwelt. In Anlehnung an die Industriegeschichte Friedrichshafens gerät zudem der Rohstoff Aluminium in den Fokus, das Metall des Fliegens, das bei seiner energieaufwändigen Gewinnung aus dem Gestein Bauxit neben Umweltschäden auch das giftige Abfallprodukt Rotschlamm verursacht.Der Katalog - wie auch die durch den Fonds Zero der Kulturstiftung des Bundes geförderte Ausstellung - haben den Anspruch, klimaneutral zu sein. Dies wird durch die Verwendung von Recyclingpapier mit dem Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel, die offene Fadenheftung ohne umweltschädliche Klebebindungen sowie den Einsatz von mineralöl-, soja- und gefahrstofffreien (Bio-)Druckfarben auf Pflanzenölbasis umgesetzt. Unvermeidbare CO2-Emissionen werden durch ein zertifiziertes Waldschutzprojekt im Harz als letztmöglicher Schritt aller Umweltmaßnahmen kompensiert. Zugleich inspiriert der Katalog zu umweltbewusstem Handeln: DIY-Anleitungen zum Bau von Insektenhotels aus Aluminiumdosen oder Repair Hacks machen das Thema Recycling ganz unmittelbar erfahrbar.Der Katalog erscheint zur interdisziplinären Ausstellung Into the deep. Minen der Zukunft, die bis zum 5. November 2023 im Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen zu sehen ist. Mit Beiträgen von Ignacio Acosta, Agnes Bidmon, Jürgen Bleibler, Bureau d'études (Léonore Bonaccini & Xavier Fourt), Michael David, El Laboratorio de Artes Gráficas del Desierto de Atacama (LAGDA), Claudia Emmert, Charlotte Ickler, Armin Linke, Ina Neddermeyer, Kristina Õllek, Bethany Rigby, Frauke Stengel und Caroline Wind.*** In recent decades, the extraction of raw materials has increasingly developed into an ecological, economic, political, and social problem of global proportions. Large-scale mining operations and the exploitation of ecological and social systems are one of the most serious threats facing the environment today. In many places, the effects are catastrophic and yet the fight over resources continues unabated. Since the resources on Earth are finite, there is a constant search for new mining sites that sometimes seem surreal, such as with deep-sea mining and deep-space mining. Into the deep takes a critical look at the history and present of the extraction of resources, which are inextricably linked to environmental destruction and colonialism. The many-layered complexities of mining for raw materials in the deep sea and in space are examined, as well as forms of resistance and activism against the exploitation of people and the environment. Drawing on Friedrichshafen's history of industrialism, the exhibition also focuses on the raw material aluminium, the metal of flight, which requires large amounts of energy to be extracted from the rock bauxite and not only causes environmental damage, but also produces the toxic waste product red mud.This catalog - along with the exhibition funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation's Fonds Zero - aim to be climate-neutral. This has been accomplished by using recycled paper with the "Blauer Engel" environmental certification, open-thread stitching without environmentally harmful adhesive bindings, and (organic) printing ink that is free of mineral oil, soy, and hazardous substances. Unavoidable CO2 emissions have been compensated through a certified forest protection project in the Harz Mountains as the last possible option in climate-protection measures. The catalog also inspires readers to be more environmentally conscious in their actions: DIY instructions for building insect hotels out of aluminium cans or repair hacks provide ways for people to practice recycling directly themselves.The catalog is being published to accompany the interdisciplinary exhibition Into the deep. Mines of the future, which can be seen until the 5th of November, 2023 at the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. With contributions by Ignacio Acosta, Agnes Bidmon, Jürgen Bleibler, Bureau d'études (Léonore Bonaccini & Xavier Fourt), Michael David, El Laboratorio de Artes Gráficas del Desierto de Atacama (LAGDA), Claudia Emmert, Charlotte Ickler, Armin Linke, Ina Neddermeyer, Kristina Õllek, Bethany Rigby, Frauke Stengel, and Caroline Wind.

Research over the past decade in health, employment, life expectancy, child mortality, and household income has confirmed that Indigenous Australians are still Australia's most disadvantaged group.

This Element examines six Indigenous communities with contrasting experiences of extractive projects. It highlights the Indigenous ability to shape different self-determination outcomes, and assesses Indigenous possibilities for self-determination in the light of environmental activism and discourses on Buen Vivir.

"Canadians were shocked in the fall of 2020 by news coverage of non-Indigenous crowds threatening Mi'kmaw fish harvesters and burning boats and plant buildings in southwest Nova Scotia. The crisis began when a few Mi'kmaq Nations began to issue their own licenses to community members to conduct small-scale lobster fishing to earn "moderate livelihoods," a treaty right recognized in the Marshall ruling. Non-Indigenous harvesters reacted, some of them violently, against the idea of a new fishery operating outside DFO-regulated licensing, seasons, and fishing zones. With the major issues still unresolved, numerous flashpoints hold potential for future conflict. The question now looms: where do we go from here? With contributions from Mi'kmaw leaders, academic researchers, legal experts, non-Indigenous industry leaders, and other knowledgeable observers on all sides of the conflict, Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery provides a respectful and realistic examination of Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives with the goal of encouraging dialogue and a shared search for lasting solutions."--

Stories from Minnesota's Iron Range highlight the challenges of competing needs on lands that offer opportunities for both mining and recreation. The Mesabi Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota conjures dramatic visuals of open pit mines and ore piles, enormous earthmoving equipment, and once-booming towns with aging architecture. But now many of these towns are busy with tourists. There are biking and ATV trails, forests and lakes. And yes, continued mining.>Over the decades, people have approached the iron lands with differing perspectives. Early miners opened the Mesabi Range to extract its ore, but key players also upheld conservation principles by setting aside lower-quality rock for use by later generations with better technology. Nature found its way into the cracks and crevices of these rock piles, and within fifty years, groves of aspen and other successional plants had transformed the red rock into vibrant green. As early as the 1950s, residents were repurposing minelands by building ski jumps and cultivating grouse-friendly habitat. These impulses were codified in the 1980 Mine Reclamation Rules, which specified how mining companies should care for the land both during and after extraction. In the early 2000s, the Laurentian Vision Project brought together landscape architects, engineers, and residents to dream up possibilities for the landscape--and then to make those dreams real by building bridges, creating wildlife sanctuaries, and opening former minelands for fishing and mountain biking.>In Minescapes, environmental engineer Pete Kero explores the record that is written on Minnesota's mined lands--and the value systems of each generation that created, touched, and lived among these landscapes. His narratives reveal ways in which the mining industry and Iron Range residents coexist and support each other today, just as they have for more than a century.

The coal industry got independence twice. Firstly, when India became independent in 1947 and the reins of the country's development came into the hands of Indians. Secondly, when the coal industry was nationalized. Even after independence, this industry did not show growth as expected. With the intention of greed for economic benefits, few people started running coal mines. The mineworkers were somehow making their living by working in an absolutely inhuman environment. The first coking coal mines were nationalized in May 1972, and all non-coking coal mines were nationalised in May 1973.Though the book is a story of the industry going from darkness to light, it was felt necessary to simultaneously discuss the future outlines and challenges in today's situation. On one hand, the country needs energy, and on the other hand, it is necessary to save the environment. Would both of these be possible? What do the leaders of this industry say, and what do the present and future generations say?This book, Andhera Ujala, is the story of the journey of the coal industry and all the aspects related to it to date.

A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit HubA stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisisIn her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around.In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men?and her.Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: ?offshore? is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay?class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security.Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli's desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange's crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle. In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit. Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.