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Even with the seeming resolution of the China-US trade war, China is still capable of denying key resources to the world’s electronics manufacturers at any time.
Find out what Pepto Bismol and Chinese trade policy have to do with one another.
I warned in March that in response to the Trump administration’s trade war, China would likely resort to squeezing supply of critical materials it controls. Now it’s happening.
The United States may soon find that those it has targeted with tariffs can fight back in ways that could cripple American industry.
Mining is already part of the poly-crisis, the Great Unraveling, the center of the conversation, debate, or struggle, whichever it turns out to be, at the intersection of our fossil fueled past and our so-called clean future. Indigenous communities everywhere will increasingly, visibly, loudly, and painfully, be at the forefront of that conversation.
What we really need to do is seriously imagine a society with fewer vehicles and drivers — human-scaled technology.
