In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil.
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..
Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.
Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. \'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.
This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil
