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Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Apple
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Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the âWar Belowâ...
The electrification of the economy is on the one hand very good. It means we can move away from consuming the carbon rich oil into our atmosphere⌠but it also means that we are going to need way more other stuff from the under the ground than we currently even know about. It will require mining 100âs of more sacred sites and 100âs of more beautiful vistas.
Copper, lithium, cobalt and literally 100âs of other rare earths are all necessary components of batteries, electric cars, trucks, boats, even leaf-blowers⌠and this for a scale for 8 billion, soon to be 9 billion peopleâŚ
If a sacred religious sight is built atop enough copper to secure your domestic supply⌠should you mine it?
If thousands of tonnes of lithium is built under a unique flower, almost certain to go extinct if you extract⌠should you do it?
And if you decide to play by environmental rules while everyone doesnât⌠are you doing whatâs right in the short term at the cost of whats best in the long?
These questions consume the book, and as well, this conversation.
So here is a veteran energy journalist for Rueters, and author of the War Below⌠Ernest Scheyder.
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