'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we've come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the week
We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.
Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile's Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a 'greener' world.
| ISBN: | 9780861546190 |
| Publication date: | 22nd June 2023 |
| Author: | Henry Sanderson |
| Publisher: | Oneworld an imprint of Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 275 pages |
| Genres: |
Social forecasting, future studies Geopolitics Investment and securities Energy Energy resources Climate change Electric motors Energy efficiency Automotive technology and trades Mining technology and engineering Energy, power generation, distribution and storage Energy industries and utilities Energy technology and engineering |