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金属霸权Power_Metal_The_Race_for_the_Resources_-_Vince_Beiser.pdf
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
by Vince Beiser
作者：文斯·贝泽尔
一位澳大利亚千万富翁的海底采矿计划；尼日利亚的垃圾捡拾者冒着生命危险，在噩梦般的污染中打捞电子垃圾；一位比尔·盖茨支持的企业家利用人工智能在北极寻找金属；智利的火车抢劫铜盗。这些都是在日益激烈的全球竞争中，为互联网和可再生能源这两项影响人类未来的关键技术寻找和提取必要矿产的一些人。这场竞赛将创造新的产业，产生巨额财富，并破坏全球力量平衡。它可能推动我们走向更加可持续发展的未来，也可能让我们陷入环境噩梦。
在《金属霸权》一书中，记者兼作家文斯·贝泽尔探讨了绿色电力的致命弱点，并指出我们的电脑、手机、电动汽车、太阳能电池板和风力涡轮机的制造需要大量日益稀有的材料——锂、钴、铜和其他材料，而这些材料的需求正在急剧上升。在世界各地，企业和政府都在争相寻找获取这些金属的新地点和新方法，但人类和地球却为此付出了巨大的代价。
贝泽尔纵横世界，见证了这场竞赛，报道了它已经造成的破坏、可能恶化的方式，以及我们可以将这种破坏降到最低的方法。
本书既是一本扣人心弦的读物，也是一本关于文明需求与地球承受能力之间的斗争的清醒读物。《金属霸权》是对这个令人不安、令人兴奋的新世界的一个引人注目的重要一瞥。
How the metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder–and how we can do better.An Australian multimillionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor.Garbage pickers in Nigeria risking their lives to salvage e-waste amid nightmarish pollution.A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing artificial intelligence to find metals in the Arctic.Train-robbing copper thieves in Chile. These are some of the people in the intensifying global competition to locate and extract the minerals essential for two critical technologies that will shape humanity’s the internet and renewable energy. It’s a race that will create new industries, generate enormous wealth, and destabilize the global balance of power. It could propel us to a more sustainable future –or plunge us into an environmental nightmare. In Power Metal, journalist and author Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of green power and digital that the manufacturing of our computers, cell phones, electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines requires enormous amounts of increasingly rare materials–lithium, cobalt, copper, and others–the demand for which is skyrocketing. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to witness this race, reporting on the damage it is already inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and the ways in which we can minimize that damage. The result is a book that is both a gripping read and a sobering account of the battle between what civilization demands and what the planet can withstand. Power Metal is a compelling and important glimpse into this new, disturbing, and exciting world.
