Episodes on minerals, extraction, supply chains, conservation, and natural resource governance.
A discussion of critical minerals, Africa's bargaining power, China, and the risk of another extraction cycle.
Part two of a North-South dialogue with Koffi Kouakou examines critical minerals, China's role, Western assumptions, and whether Africa can turn resource demand into leverage rather than another extraction cycle.
Read episode pageSource episodeHow the U.S. offsets mining, emissions, standards, and conscience through global supply chains.
The American offset model lets the United States outsource the visible costs of mining, emissions, standards, and consumption while preserving a cleaner story about itself. This episode connects copper, carbon, supply chains, and geopolitical risk.
Read episode pageSource episodeA resource-policy contradiction: America needs copper, but often blocks the mining and supply chains it depends on.
America needs copper and strategic minerals for energy, defense, and industrial resilience, but its own permitting and political choices often block the mines it says it needs. This episode examines the contradiction between clean-energy ambition, resource dependence, and policy reality.
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