Instead of framing opinions based on economic gains, capitalist ethics and purely material vectors, people living in affluent society can try and understand the larger implications of mining, at a global scale. With higher and more educated understanding of the existing situation. All mining companies must manage risks that have the potential to cause a range of catastrophic outcomes, including environmental disasters. In its definition the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA, 2016) recognises the diversity of impacts that it can cause, describing a disaster event as “a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts”…. A new study reveals more about the symbiotic relationship between mining and environmental disasters.
Mining-related environmental disasters: A High Reliability Organisation
Attribution: Samrat Bharadwaj