Alasdair speaks to Professor Ángela Vergara about the history, economics, and environmental impact of mining in Chile.

Ángela Vergara is a member of the history faculty at California State University. Her books include Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile (Pittsburgh, 2021), and Copper Workers, International Business and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile (Penn State, 2008).

Podcast Editing by Vasko Kostovski.

Further reading: 

• 'The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert', International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. 
• Stay tuned for our upcoming collection on www.landclimate.org, The future unrefined, coming next week - including content about Chilean mining!

Click here to read our investigation into the UK biomass supply chain, or watch a clip from the BBC Newsnight documentary.