As mining is resurging in North America, debates across the continent over mines are simplified: \u201cDo we prioritize jobs or the environment?\u00a0 Companies or communities?\u201d\u00a0 These are worthy debates. Yet should the issue of mining really be reduced to \u201cpro-con\u201d statements?<\/p>\n
Michigan Technological University experts from a wide range of disciplines say no.<\/p>\n
“The worst type of communication has to do with the simplification of the mining issues.\u00a0 I think the biggest problem is creation of polar opposites so that one has to choose between employment or environmental and health protection\u201d says Carol MacLennan, an environmental anthropologist at Michigan Tech who has studied mining communities for almost a decade.\u00a0\u201cCharacterizing it that was is very destructive because you’re never forced to confront the complexity of the issue.”<\/p>\n
Ted Bornhorst, director of Michigan Tech\u2019s A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum and a mining geologist for more than 30 years, emphasizes that no one in modern society can deny their use of mining products. \u201cProbably the biggest frustration in the mining controversy,\u201d Bornhorst says, \u201cis the complete, absolute disconnect that most people have between mining and their lives.\u201d\u00a0 Consequently, Bornhorst believes there is a fundamental need to include more geology in pre-college education.<\/p>\n
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