The scramble for rare earths, part 1
The Documentary Podcast
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The Protests in Barosu, Portugal
Guillaume Petron, author of the Rare Metals War, has a warning for us. The world will consume more metals and minerals than we have ever consumed in 70,000 years since beginning of humankind. We need to mine all those metals because the planet faces a catastrophe, human-made climate change. If we are to avoid the worst, we have to dispense with fossil fuels at lightning speed.
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