The fight against climate change has some powerful allies.

We're seeing some of the world's largest financial players

starting to integrate climate risk into how they evaluate their portfolios.

Stay tuned for a special branded episode of Global Translations presented by City, right here on December

16th.

And you know it's funny you were just saying what's your nightmare? I have two nightmares.

One nightmare is that we're going to end up in a war with China and that it's going to be the

worst thing that could possibly happen to everyone in the world.

And that we're just going to wake up one day and say,

oh, we didn't need it back into this, here we are.

The other thing is that what we're getting a taste of in COVID that a year from now

We're gonna find ourselves like in a food security crisis in a technology production crisis because those systems have broken down because of the pandemic so much

that all of a sudden things we really, really need we can't get.

Both of those things I think are credible worries at this point which is I mean a year ago

which you have thought we would be here in 2020. That's Sharon Burke she's an expert in national security and energy, a fellow at New America, and an alumna of the Pentagon and the State Department.

And those things she fears, those nightmares, they have a lot to do with

our vulnerability when it comes to the countries we rely on for our everyday needs, and especially

how vulnerable we are to being cut off from critical supplies.

And those supplies are used in everything from our national defense to our smartphones. They're minerals. Critical minerals. I'm Louisa Savage.

And I'm Ryan Heath. In the first chapter of this podcast we talked about the careful balance of global supply chains,

how fragile they are, and how our tenuous trade relationship with China, and now the pandemic,

have upended these systems.

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