Episode 88: Serbia’s Lithium: Sacrifice Zones or Opportunity for Europe’s Peripheries?

Green Wave

English - July 26, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 9.87 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Welcome to the podcast and to another piece from our latest edition! The green transition relies on the use of numerous rare minerals. Lithium especially is crucial and Serbia’s reserves of this lightest of metals are coveted. But with a proposed mine catalysing the largest environmental protests in Serbian history, it is clear that local communities are asking, “Whose green transition”?

Written by Predrag Momčilović.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/serbias-lithium-sacrifice-zones-or-opportunity-for-europes-peripheries/

This article is from our latest edition Up in Arms: Environmental Divides Reshaping Politics. Read it online here: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/edition/up-in-arms-environmental-divides-reshaping-politics/

Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.