Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom w/ Thea Riofrancos
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What's Driving the Onshore Mining Industry?
Sally Kohn: I was surprised when the policy makers i started interviewing were so intent on onattracting mining rather than just importing it. She says there's a real kind of industrial policy reason in trying to attract these new businesses, to grow these new sectors. But what else is driving this attempt to onshore minerals? You know, why are these existing supply chains no longer perceived as being dependable as they were in the past? Skelton: The pandemic had re shuffled how policy makers and corporations think about supply chains. It's a recent history, but it goes a little further back than we might think.
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