Rare Earth Minerals - What Are They, and Why Are They Important?

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parisits great test sweak with you for people understand where this discussion is coming from. I was hoping that you could start by talking a bit about rare earth minerals, what they are, and why they're really important to this conversation. A so it's mis nomer, butby the term rare earth elements generally refers to a the lanthenite series,. They share these fantastic magnetic and conductive properties. And some of them also have different color properties in things like that make them useful for all sorts of crazy applications.

Paris Marx is joined by Julie Michelle Klinger to discuss the myths around rare earth elements and how they’re fueling a movement to enclose and mine space. But a better, more collaborative future that treats space as a commons is still possible, and the Global South may show us the way forward.

Julie Michelle Klinger is the author of “Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes” and an Assistant Professor of Geography & Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her argument about why space is not the final frontier was recently published on urbanNext. Follow Julie on Twitter as @Prof_Klinger.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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