The Lithium Rush ft. Thea Riofrancos
It's the free one!
Riley, Alice, and Milo look at the ongoing descent of the UK pundit class into embodying the global death drive, and take a look at a story of a certain kind of British Guy achieving apotheosis (spending £218 of Bolton Council's money meant for excluded children at the Spar in Praia du Luz in Portugal). In between, Riley talks to academic Thea Riofrancos about why "onshoring" mining is all the rage now that the world's security and energy orders have both been thrown into disarray.
The interview with Thea starts at 23:16 and ends at 53:45!
Read Thea’s article on mining here (paywalled): https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/07/renewable-energy-transition-critical-minerals-mining-onshoring-lithium-evs-climate-justice/
Comments (12)
been a good while since the last ep that gave me a good pretext to say it again but: ban all cars
perfect ending, no notes
Is really amazing how the pundit class, a group of people who've never lifted anything heavier than a paperweight are like, "Yeah, I reckon we'd do well in a nuclear war". Like, there is literally no bomb shelters or infrastructure of any kind to deal with that, if you ever did. We would all turn into pink mist, and yet it has not remotely dawned on them that that's the case. These fuckers either never watched Threads, or were distracted during it. Thank fuck none of them are near the control panels of a Trident sub. I really hope people start taking nuclear disarmament seriously now, because these is the consequences of the sheer arrogance of refusing to do so.
Stepping in for Robert McGuinness to [redacted] in Bolton it's... Mr. Balthasar Speedboat!
Professor Riofrancos kicks ass
Riley go a full episode without saying "three-card monte" challenge
I see UK charities are equivalent to American religious nonprofits in terms of pure graft.
Please unlock the interview. This is an issue I haven't heard enough about and is scary as fuck.
This will be out on the free feed tonight also. The article’s behind a paywall but that’s Foreign Policy magazine being shit
“White Ukrainian” oof
There's a bit in Gavin and Stacy where Stacy accuses Nessa of being racist, and Nessa responds 'It's not racism Stace, it's xenophobia'. The British Governments approach to refugees seems to operate the same way.
aw yis. Hyped to see the most nimby-fied and property values-pilled countries on earth decide they're gonna do rare earths mining in their protected wetlands