Extinction by Extraction?

What we choose when we choose our minerals

Every wind turbine, electric vehicle, guided missile and smartphone depends on a group of metals most people have never heard of. Rare earth elements make the modern world's energy, defense and computing systems possible. They also come from some of the most toxic, concentrated and politically contested supply chains on Earth.

Extinction by Extraction? asks a question that policy debates have largely avoided: how do the environmental and human costs ...