
Space Mining Brings Capitalism to the Cosmos w/ Julie Michelle Klinger
Tech Won't Save Us
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Rare Earth Elements Are Important for Just About Everything
People woke up one morning to this headline that china and bargod rarers to japan. And they had to learn a couple of things very quickly. Wait watar, rare earth elements. What are they used? Where are they mined? These have been relatively under the radar outside of specialist audiences. So all of a sudden people got really worked up. They thought, oh my gosh. Well, if china is flexing its geo economic muscle and the whole world is dependent on china for rare earth exports, they could just decide to hold the world hostage. That's not what happened,. But because rarerth elements are really important for just about everything. If we
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