The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca By Guillaume Pitron

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Possibly the best analysis of this book is that we don’t aa rare metals problem but a grey matters problem.Few Greedy rich and too many ignorant people. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca I have the paperback with 192 pages not including notes, appendices and bibliography. Well written and an easy read except when I considered the findings that the book presents. The author is French, but he has a global perspective. What he book refers to as rare metals are called rare earths elsewhere. Consistent with the book, I'll call them rare metals.Rare metals are found in many places, but to mine them involves significant negative environmental impacts. The rare metals are essential for an electrified future society freed from dependence on oil and gas and the digital hardware that we in the West use daily. So, the West and increasingly elsewhere must have these materials for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines and the like for a sustainable future and to fend off climate change. The book outlines the environmental price to be paid to secure these essential materials.The book also looks at how China has appropriated the capacity to deliver many of these rare metals to the rest of the world and the price to be paid by the West for this. Strong environmental movements in the West have driven mining out of the United States and Europe. China, with much less environmental activism, has seized for itself the telecom geoeconomic power that comes from mining. Read the book to see some of the implications that arise from the West's abdication of the power to mine.The West wants a green world powered by sustainable technologies that require rare metals with a very harmful environmental impact. This inconsistency leads the author to repeatedly ask the Western reader to consider this inconsistency and reduce the use of digital technologies and power generally.The author' review of China's power arising from its dominance in the production of rare metals was very troubling. The West's insistence on being green while being willfully blind to the damage caused by rare metals' extraction was also troubling.If any of these topics interest or intrigue you, I highly recommend the book. Get it, read it and think about its conclusions. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca this book is very thought provoking. I myself was not aware of how these metals were employed &where. A book for the younger end I think. I would rate it 10/10. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca Rare earth critical components of all AI, Robots and Space technology. China has full monopoly from mining to high end products. Controlling the vast rare earth supply chain.. China is playing the power game better than West,Anglo Saxon or 5 eyes. Kudos to China. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca El libro muestra la importancia que tienen actualmente la mayoría de metales dentro de nuestro día a día. Es una lectura necesaria para lograr entender el presente y futuro geopolítico de la humanidad. Recomendado. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca

I nice introduction to a complex problem, could have done with info on asteroid mining, thoroughly enjoyed though , recommend The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca Loved this book and don't think I've ever taken so long to read something. Ended up reading less than a chapter per night. It is simply fascinating to read and author has done such a good job. I am not a scientist and barely heard of a quarter of the rare metals but an The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca The Greens and the Extinction Rebellion's aims are extremely laudable and makes a lot of sense. This book isn't anti Green but questions whether extracting rare metals for green energy ( wind farms, EVs, solar panels etc.) and digital technology is good for the environment. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca A very interesting and deeply concerning insight into not only how we (most of us), have been seduced by big corporate and political animals to take the dance floor and tango to green and digital rhythms. The book clearly lays out how the errors of previous energy The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca As is often the case with these documentary type books it did seem to repeat the same message a lot. None the less it was eye opening to a subject that I was unaware of so that was enlightening. If you are interested in current world politics I would recommend The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies eBook : Pitron, Guillaume, Jacobsohn, Bianca