Rocks and Hard Places: The Globalization of Mining (Global Issues)

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The geopolitics of contention centering around growing US-China hyper-competition has polarized the transition to a decarbonized global economy and has made digitalization a battleground over control of the tech imperium. This dangerous development undermines the realization of a coordinated international response to the climate crisis. It has also led to the securitization of access to critical minerals and their extensive globalized supply chains, jeopardizing the manufacturing of technological end products at a time when an already narrow window for constructing new infrastructure and deploying green technology is rapidly closing. The overuse of economic statecraft to settle a wide range of disputes (exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine) has, moreover, further fueled renationalizing narratives that seek to break ties of interdependence. This chapter provides insight into the latest manifestation of resource competition. It recommends the lowering of the rhetoric of hyper-competition so that the response to the climate crisis does not become a starting pistol for a new scramble: for inputs, “geopolitically engineered” supply chains and the building up of tech and knowledge barriers that produce new exclusions and inequities engendering securitized solutions to global challenges. Keywords The phrase is also used when there are two evil or negative decisions, but one must be chosen regardless of the outcome. The phrase is commonly used in regular life and in professional settings. Example Usage a b c Davids, Brian (April 26, 2022). " Better Call Saul Writer-Director Gordon Smith Breaks Down Devastating Third Episode". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 28, 2022 . Retrieved April 29, 2022. The dilemma of being in a position where one is faced with two equally unwelcome options appears to lie deep in the human psyche. Language always reflects people's preoccupations and there are several phrases that express this predicament. The first of these quite literally conveys the uncomfortable nature of the choice between two lemmas (propositions), that is, 'on the horns of a dilemma'. Other phrases that compare two less than desirable alternatives are 'the lesser of two evils', ' between the devil and the deep blue sea', 'between Scylla and Charybdis', ' an offer you can't refuse' and ' Hobson's choice'.

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