natural resources

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/4/2023
  

  Can Capitalism Exist Without Excess?

  by Trevor Jackson

  The pandemic supply chain disruptions have focused attention on shortages, but the problem of gluts—of food being destroyed when it can't be profitably sold–reflects a deeper problem with global capitalism. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/1/2022
  

  The Coles Family Land in Virginia Holds Incredible Uranium Wealth. Do Descendants of People Enslaved There Deserve a Share?

  The uranium at Coles Hill is potentially worth billions of dollars. 

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  11/7/2022
  

  Critical Minerals and Geopolitical Competition

  by Gregory Brew and Morgan Bazilian

  Can developed nations decarbonize without exacerbating the geopolitics of resource extraction as demands for critical minerals conflicts with local labor, environmental, and human rights protection? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/20/2021
  

  Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths: The Post-Petroleum Resource Race and What to Make of It

  by Michael Klare

  Renewable energy may close the door on the era of oil war, but it's imperative that industrial nations not allow a new global conflict over access to the materials needed to build a renewable energy infrastructure. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/2/2021
  

  Biden Administration Pauses Transfer of Holy Native American Land to Mining Firm

  While tribes and environmental groups celebrated the Forest Service announcement, they noted the threat of losing Oak Flat remains.

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• 12/6/2020
  

  How Wood Helped America Become Great – But Mislay its Sense of History

  by Roland Ennos

  Industrializing America's infrastructure was much more likely than Europe's to be made of wood. This accident of nature and geography helped drive rapid expansion, but today means much of the 19th century built environment of the United States has vanished.