The War Below
Lithium, copper, and the resource constraints behind the future.
Scheyder documents the global scramble for critical minerals — lithium, cobalt, copper — that the energy transition requires, and the enormous gap between the political promise of clean technology and the physical reality of digging enough of it out of the ground. It is the Smil argument applied to the green transition: every future is built on materials, and the materials have geography, and the geography has politics.