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Political swings and roundabouts

contested at a political level: the ?hockey stick? graph???showing how high recent temperatures are compared with the past 2,000?years???is perhaps an exemplar. Clearly there is no simple catch-all answer ... ambiguities would seem to leave the door open to delay and debate over any new environmental legislation in the US, something that is particularly challenging in a political environment starting from the

A mineralogical phoenix rising out of the ashes...?

as political and economic pressures, has led to the selection of energy sources in each country. Over time, energy selection has been influenced by the availability of resources, the cost of production ... contributed to global warming and climate change, resulting in severe pressures from political and environmental quarters. In recognition of its value in supplying safe, secure, and reliable energy, coal now

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Reflections on the 'impossible

required to address global challenges as what we once believed to be a relatively predictable road ahead, now forks in new and uncertain directions. Economic, social, ecological, and political challenges ... activities, whether on a global scale or just in our backyard. The future is coming, one way or another, and our ways of thinking, our philosophy, will need to be unconventionally wise to navigate the future

Celebrating Ethical Leaders

insecurity in our volatile political, economic and social environment.In light of the recent unrest, and prior to ending my term as President of the SAIMM, I feel it necessary to again emphasise the importance ... necessary to again emphasise the importance of ethical leadership in the South African context. July witnessed a tragic development in the political arena. Stores were ransacked and destroyed by people

The Carbon Tax Conundrum

informed to answer questions about any carbon tax policy, national or global? Or are we projecting negativity due to the general discontent with the current state of affairs - economic, social, and political ... political? What is our definition of recycling tax revenue 'efficiently'? Does this depend on perspective? If carbon tax revenue is recycled into the general fiscus to support the Basic Income Grant in a

A new automated, safe, environmentally sustainable, and high extraction soft-rock underground mining method

Ore deposits are becoming more complex to mine as a result of the exhaustion of surface and other easily mined deposits. There is also increasing socio-political pressure to design more

Prediction is difficult

adaptation of the writings of Johnathan Swift. Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglican cleric and in 1710 he wrote in The Art of Political Lying'Besides, as the ... Art of Political Lying 'Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ'd only for an Hour, it has done its Work

South African mining in the contemporary political–economic context

emerged as one of the most contentious and emotive political issues under review. Some four years after the African National Congress electoral conference held in Polokwane, which had led to a change of ... solely the work of opportunistic political agitators. Undoubtedly, the perceptions of discontent about the inequitable distribution of wealth were being exploited by political opportunists, but to consider

South African mining in the contemporary political–economic context

emerged as one of the most contentious and emotive political issues under review. Some four years after the African National Congress electoral conference held in Polokwane, which had led to a change of ... solely the work of opportunistic political agitators. Undoubtedly, the perceptions of discontent about the inequitable distribution of wealth were being exploited by political opportunists, but to consider