In America, there is a company Planetary Resources that is aiming to revolutionise the mining of precious resources that are of limited quantity on our planet. They are planning to find more of the precious metals, stones and minerals in space. This plan will cost millions of dollars to carry through and it is hoped that it will be a total sucess due to the advancements in technology and also the abundant amount of natural resources found in outer space.
It begs the question though, should we look for more dwindling supplies of natural materials outside of earth in a bid to make certain countries stronger economically and still keep a greedy outlook on the environment or simply not go to all these great and dangerous and not to mention massively expensive ones also but simply rethink our attitude towards the plant's resources.
Surely we don't need to go all the way into space to find the answer to a problem, we just need something closer to home, using our collective intelligence and actually realising that gold is not the solution to this world's problems.
For further information this article is useful.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9225386/Planetary-Resources-mining-asteroids-project-launched.html
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