Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom w/ Thea Riofrancos
Tech Won't Save Us
English - September 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 395 ratingsPolitics News Technology technology silicon valley politics socialism criticism news books paris marx tech criticism future Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss how the push for electric vehicles is driving governments in the United States and Europe to onshore mining after decades of doing the reverse, what that means for companies in the sector, and how movements are pushing back against this resource-intensive vision for a green transition.
Thea Riofrancos is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and a member of the Climate + Community Project. She’s also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador. Follow Thea on Twitter at @triofrancos.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.
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