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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

357) Guillaume Pitron: The shifting conflicts and costs of ‘green’ energy

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

“The sooner we are able to get rid of these two commodities, oil and coal, the better it will be... But 'green' technologies such as electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines, don’t come out of thin air.” –Guillaume Pitron

In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Guillaume Pitron, an award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for some of France’s leading TV channels. From Chinese rare earth metals, oil extraction in Alaska, to Sudanese gum arabic and khat trading in Djibouti, he focuses his work on commodities and on the economic, political, and environmental issues associated with their use. His first book, The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of the Energy Transition and Digitalization, explores our new dependence on rare metals.

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(The musical offering in this episode is Power to Change by Luna Bec.)

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The sooner we will be able to get rid of these two commodities oil and coal, the better it

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will be.

1:49.3

So we have to find another way of producing energy that will not actually produce CO2 emissions.

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But the thing is, green technologies such as electric cars, such as solar panels, such as wind turbines,

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these technologies don't come out of thin air.

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Today we are revisiting our conversation with Guillaume Piton, which was the first interview I hosted here explicitly exploring the impacts of quote-unquote green energy. This was a pivotal

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