Volt Rush: The Winners And Losers In The Race To Go Green

A greener world won’t come for free

'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we’ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the week

We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.

Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a ‘greener’ world.

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'A fascinating study'

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‘A potent reminder to green power advocates that a world running on batteries and sunshine may not fight over oil, but it won’t necessarily be free of conflict’

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Henry Sanderson - Генри Сандерсон

Publisher:Oneworld Publications

Language:English

Publication Date:2023

Number of pages:288 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:129 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:240 g

ISBN:9780861546190