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The Long History of Profit And Environmental Consequences (w/ Mark Stoll)

The Climate Pod

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The Importance of Mining in a Clean Energy Economy

I don't think we can solve it all in an hour, but there are real shifts that are meaningful, right? Switching to a clean energy economy does significantly reduce the mining burden. And what we are using is, we know, you know, reusable. So your battery is going to be used hundreds of times probably before you're going to need to recycle or discard it. This is not true with coal. And it's not true with oil. But yeah, so we're extracting, I think we do extract less.

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