18 must-read nonfiction books like The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron

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Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Similar categories in Edmund Conway's Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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• society
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Similar categories in Vincent Lemire's Histoire de Jérusalem book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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Similar categories in Jean-Marc Jancovici's Le Monde sans fin book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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Similar categories in Javier Blas's The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Similar categories in David H. Petraeus's Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Similar categories in Daniel Yergin's The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Similar categories in Duncan Mavin's The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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Similar categories in Tom Burgis's Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Similar categories in The Shift Project's Climat, crises: Le plan de transformation de l'économie française book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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• environment

Similar categories in Henry Sanderson's Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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Similar categories in Paul Sen's Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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Similar categories in Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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• environment
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• society
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"La réouverture des mines françaises serait même la meilleure décision écologique qui soit. Car la délocalisation de nos industries polluantes a eu un double effet pervers : elle a contribué à mainten…"

-Guillaume Pitron, The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

Similar categories in Ernest Scheyder's The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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• environment
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Similar categories in Philippe Bihouix's L'Âge des low tech: Vers une civilisation techniquement soutenable book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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• environment
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Similar categories in Lukasz Bednarski's Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution book and Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

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