The rare metals war : the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies / Guillaume Pitron ; translated by Bianca Jacobsohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitron, Guillaume, author.

Contributor:

Jacobsohn, Bianca, translator.

Standardized Title:

Guerre des métaux rares. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rare earth industry--Environmental aspects.

Rare earth industry.

Rare earth metals--Environmental aspects.

Rare earth metals.

Environmental toxicology.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Melbourine, Australia ; London, United Kingdom ; Minneapolis, Minnesota : Scribe Publications, 2024.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Summary:

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 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.-- adapted from publisher description.

Contents:

The rare metals curse

The dark side of green and digital technologies

Delocalised pollution

The West under embargo

High-tech hold-up

The day China overtook the West

The race for precision-guided missiles

Mining goes global

The last of the backwaters.

Notes:

First published in French in 2018 by Les liens qui Libèrent as La guerre des métaux rares.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781957363905

1957363908

OCLC:

1443635652

Publisher Number:

90104358527