The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side Of Clean Energy And Digital Technologies: Updated Edition

Pitron, Guillaume

ISBN 10: 1957363908 ISBN 13: 9781957363905

Publisher: Scribe US, 2024

Synopsis

The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals―but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?

The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution, shortages, and cross-border tensions. Now updated after several years of research across a dozen countries, this book cuts across conventional green thinking to probe the hidden, dark side of green technology.

By breaking free of fossil fuels, we are in fact setting ourselves up for a new dependence―on rare metals such as cobalt, gold, and palladium. They are essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, our smartphones, computers, tablets, and other everyday connected objects. China has captured the lion’s share of the rare metals industry, but consumers know very little about how they are mined and traded, or their environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs.

The Rare Metals War is a vital exposé of the ticking time-bomb that lies beneath our new technological order. It uncovers the reality of our lavish and ambitious environmental quest that involves risks as formidable as those it seeks to resolve.

About this title

About the Authors

Guillaume Pitron, born in 1980, is a French award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for France’s leading television channels. His work focuses on commodities and on the economic, political, and environmental issues associated with their use. The Rare Metals War, his first book, sold 80,000 copies in France and has been translated into ten languages. Guillaume Pitron holds a master’s degree in international law from the University of Georgetown (Washington, DC), and is a TEDx speaker. More information at www.en-guillaumepitron.com.

Bianca Jacobsohn is a South African and French translator and conference interpreter who specializes in energy, finance, strategic metals, and diplomacy. More information at www.biancajacobsohn.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribe US
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1957363908
• ISBN 13: 9781957363905
• Number of pages: 320