Danger! High Voltage: The Dark Side of Electric Cars

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Electric cars have been sold as an answer to green, clean travel. But is the reality that clear-cut? Henry Sanderson, author of Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green, joins Ahir Shah to discuss whether they’re really a climate-friendly solution, resource mining and de-coupling energy reliance from China. “A lot of green products mask dirty supply chains.” – Henry Sanderson “China is present at all stages of the supply chains: from mine to processing.” – Henry Sanderson “With mining resources - nothing comes for free.” – Henry Sanderson “The DRC is the Saudi Arabia of cobalt – they know they have one chance to get this right.” – Henry Sanderson https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ahir Shah. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:17.0	Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.
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0:30.0	Pets brings so much joy.
0:32.0	From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa
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0:55.3	look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I'm Ahir Shah. The world is electrifying. To avoid the worst of a climate
1:15.2	catastrophe, the world will have to move from the fossils that have fuelled growth since the
1:18.7	industrial revolution to the commodities and materials of the future.
1:22.6	But where do these resources come from and who controls them?
1:25.9	To what extent can clean end products mask dirty supply chains?
1:30.2	Joining me to discuss this is Henry Sanderson.
1:32.6	Henry previously covered mining and commodities for the Financial Times
1:35.9	and is the author of the recent book,
1:37.5	Volt Rush, the winners and losers in the race to go green.
1:40.8	Henry, welcome to the bunker.
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