The difficulty where ge politics of green energy comes in, is about the metals on which the infera structure that green enegny requires depends. Right now, as it is right now, china has disproportionate a volume of the rare earth metals in the earth and dominates supply chains around those metals. And againis is not going to happen and very quickly. The old geo politics of fossil fuel energy is going coincist with the new go politics ofgreen energy.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a columnist for The New Statesman, and has been a regular contributor to the Talking Politics podcast. Her new book, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, looks at decades of geopolitical history that have fed into our current moment: one of war and conflict, nations competing for dwindling natural resources, and the climate emergency casting a long shadow. She joins journalist and author Andrew Mueller to discuss how we got here.
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