"The place: " The steep mountains outside Salt Lake City. "The
time: " The first decade of the twentieth century. "The man: "
Daniel Jackling, a young metallurgical engineer. "The goal: " A
bold new technology that could provide billions of pounds of cheap
copper for a rapidly electrifying America. "The result: " Bingham's
enormous "Glory Hole," the first large-scale open-pit copper mine,
an enormous chasm in the earth and one of the largest humanmade
artifacts on the planet. "Mass Destruction" is the compelling story
of Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its
role in the wiring of an electrified America, as well its
devastating environmental consequences.
Mass destruction mining soon spread around the nation and the
globe, providing raw materials essential to the mass production and
mass consumption that increasingly defined the emerging "American
way of life." At the dawn of the last century, Jackling's open pit
replaced immense but constricted underground mines that probed
nearly a mile beneath the earth, to become the ultimate symbol of
the modern faith that science and technology could overcome all
natural limits. A new culture of mass destruction emerged that
promised nearly infinite supplies not only of copper, but also of
coal, timber, fish, and other natural resources.
"But, what were the consequences?" Timothy J. LeCain deftly
analyzes how open-pit mining continues to affect the environment in
its ongoing devastation of nature and commodification of the
physical world. The nation's largest toxic Superfund site would be
one effect, as well as other types of environmental dead zones
around the globe. Yet today, as the world's population races toward
American levels of resource consumption, truly viable alternatives
to the technology of mass destruction have not yet emerged.
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