Hidden Material Flows

A student in USP 2 shared this article from the New York Times. It is about Iceland and investment in aluminum manufacturing and power plants. It is a good illustration of the kinds of hidden flows we talk about in USP 2 (our ecological footprint in far off places).

Excerpt:

The culmination of years of effort by the center-right government to increase international investment in Iceland, the project has already begun to revitalize Iceland’s underpopulated east. But it has also mobilized an angry and growing coalition of people who feel that the authorities have sacrificed Iceland’s most precious asset — the pristine land itself — to heavy industry from abroad. (link to article in NYT)