Episode 3: Heavy Metal (who’s paying for it?)

Your phone, your laptop, the servers running the AI model you asked a question this morning: all of it starts as rock pulled out of somebody's land. Following the previous episode of Panic With A Purpose, Nhi and CJ go upstream from water into the minerals powering our technologies - lithium, cobalt, copper, iron - and ask who ends up carrying the cost of each option, and who gets to decide that. Europe is mining at home now in the name of sovereignty, which turns out to mean new permits on ...