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100 1  Pitron, Guillaume,|eauthor. 
240 10 Guerre des  métaux rares.|lEnglish 
245 14 The rare metals war :|bthe dark side of clean energy and 
       digital technologies /|cGuillaume Pitron ; translated by 
       Bianca Jacobsohn. 
264  1 Melbourne, Vic. :|bScribe,|c2020. 
300    xi, 263 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    First published as: La guerre des métaux rares, 2018. 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  The rare metals curse -- The dark side of green and 
       digital technologies -- Delocalised pollution -- The West 
       under embargo -- High-tech hold-up -- The day China 
       overtook the West -- The race for precision-guided 
       missiles -- Mining goes global -- The last of the 
       backwaters -- Epilogue. 
520    Is the shift to renewable energy and digital devices going
       to free us from severe pollution, material shortages, and 
       military tensions? Rare metals are essential to electric 
       vehicles, fighter jets, wind turbines, and solar panels, 
       and also to our smartphones, computers, tablets, and other
       everyday connected objects. But consumers know very little
       about how they are mined and traded, or the environmental,
       economic, and geopolitical costs of this dependence. This 
       book reveals the dark side of the world that awaits us. It
       is an undercover tale of a technological odyssey that has 
       promised much, and a look behind the scenes. Behind it all
       lurks China, which has captured the lion's share of the 
       ownership and processing of rare metals we now can't do 
       without. Drawing on six years of research across a dozen 
       countries, this book shows that by breaking free of fossil
       fuels, we are in fact setting ourselves up for a new 
       dependence--on rare metals that have become vital to our 
       new ecological and digital society. 
546    Translated from the French. 
650  0 Rare earth metals|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Rare earth industry|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Rare earth industry|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Rare earth metals|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Rare earth metals|xEconomic aspects. 
650  0 Environmental toxicology. 
650  7 Environmental toxicology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00913536 
650  7 Rare earth industry|xEnvironmental aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01090129 
700 1  Jacobson, Bianca,|etranslator. 
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994    C0|bCKE