The fight over minerals for green energy — and a better way forward | Saleem Ali
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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To transition to clean energy and green technology like electric cars, the world needs massive amounts of essential minerals. Environmental peacemaker Saleem Ali explains the conflicts already arising between countries rushing to mine and extract these precious minerals — and shows how the world can find a way to cooperate rather than fight resource wars.
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| 0:17.0 | There's a lot of talk about what needs to happen for the clean energy transition to really take place. and the transition cannot happen at all |
| 0:25.0 | without minerals, minerals that are fought and negotiated over all over the planet. |
| 0:30.4 | In his 2024 talk, environmental peacemaker Salim Ali lays out a bold vision |
| 0:36.2 | for global cooperation over minerals that might just save the planet. After the break. |
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| 1:18.9 | Consider a humble box of breakfast cereal. |
| 1:22.0 | On its side, you'll find a list of minerals, |
| 1:25.5 | minerals which are so essential for our metabolism |
| 1:29.5 | that we are willing to make exceptions |
| 1:36.7 | even in times of war for trade in grains. |
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