About the Book: Extraction
An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and
the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires.
In the fight against climate change, lithiums role in reducing emissions by
powering green economies is a mixed blessing. Drawing on groundbreaking
fieldwork in Chile, Nevada, and Portugal, Thea Riofrancos explores the
environmental and social costs of the global race to expand lithium mining amid
supply chain concerns. With haunting descriptions of vulnerable ecosystems, she
examines how mining harms landscapes, provokes protest, takes centre stage in
national politics, and links countries on the peripheries of the world economy
to huge corporations,