The Rare Metals War

A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order.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 will reduce our reliance on nuclear power coal and oil but by breaking free of fossil fuels we are setting ourselves up for a new dependence ― on rare metals like cobalt gold and palladium. These are essential to electric vehicles wind turbines and solar panels as well as our smartphones computers tablets and other technologies. But we know very little about how rare metals are mined and traded or their environmental economic and geopolitical costs ― until now.