{"product_id":"mining-society-and-a-sustainable-world-von-jeremy-richards-hrsg","title":"Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World","description":"\u003cp\u003e¿I sit on a man¿s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means ¿ except by getting off his back.¿ Leo Tolstoy - Writings on Civil Disobe- ence and Non-Violence (1886). In today¿s world where sustainable development has become a critical security concept for the well-being of the environment and society, the man Tolstoy depicts might well be interchangeable for either the planet in terms of its carrying-capacity or its bene?ciary, society. While it is arguable that mining is neither inherently sustainable nor unsusta- able (O¿Faircheallaigh, this volume), exploration, production, and consumption of non-renewable resources over time makes the industry ultimately unsustainable if it results in negative socio-economic impact (Waye et al., this volume). This inva- ably leads to de?nitions of sustainability in terms of the ?nancial bene?ts that can accrue from transforming natural capital into human capital, theoretically creating intergenerational bene?ts (ibid.). Such a de?nition of sustainability is inherently utilitarian, assuming the English political philosopher Jeremy Bentham¿s sugg- tion that human nature avoids pain for the pursuit of pleasure, and that legislators should therefore base decisions on the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people (Bentham 1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783642011023\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783642428005\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783642011023","offer_id":51780109638,"sku":"9783642011023","price":160.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover - 9783642428005","offer_id":39431666303069,"sku":"9783642428005","price":160.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/cd49aa32-8746-4abe-adb6-5c26313fc684.jpg?v=1777956427","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/mining-society-and-a-sustainable-world-von-jeremy-richards-hrsg","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}