The blind spots of the green energy transition | Olivia Lazard
TED Talks Daily
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The world needs clean power, but decarbonization calls for a massive increase in the mining and extraction of minerals like lithium, graphite and cobalt. Environmental peacemaking expert Olivia Lazard sheds light on the scramble for these precious mineral resources -- and how the countries that control their supply chains (including China and Russia) could find themselves at the center of the new global stage. Learn why Lazard thinks planetary security depends on our ability to de-escalate resource competition and avoid the same mistakes that led to the climate crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Ted Dox Daily, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:07.0 | The world needs power, but it's too perilous to rely on the traditional dirty forms of |
| 0:11.2 | it. |
| 0:12.2 | Environmental peacemaking expert Olivia Lazard takes us through the landscape of clean |
| 0:15.9 | energy sources in the form of minerals in her 2022 talk from Ted Countdown New York |
| 0:20.9 | Session. |
| 0:22.1 | She sheds light on how the transition to sources like lithium and nickel are already having |
| 0:26.5 | effects on global political power. |
| 0:36.5 | It's called work life and it's about the science of making work not suck. |
| 0:40.8 | Next time, making change happen. |
| 0:42.9 | The number one mistake of leading change is that we try to change things with information, |
| 0:48.2 | but people have to have an emotional response that opens them up to change. |
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