The world needs more copper in next two decades than it has ever produced before
www.abc.net.au
When you check your phone, turn on your kitchen tap or drive your car to work, you're using copper, a crucial mineral found in all these devices. Copper is also essential for renewable energy construction, but a global shortage is looming.

Article is mostly how to profit of human stupidity but I thought this quote was salient and on topic. Not new for people who have paid attention though but a reminder.

“[The world] will have to produce approximately a billion tonnes of copper metal in the next 25 years to meet net zero targets,” he said.

That is more copper than has ever been produced.

Clean energy might help deal with emissions, but it does nothing to reverse deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion and mass extinction. A growth-obsessed economy powered by clean energy will still tip us into ecological disaster.” - Jason Hickel

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Aluminum wiring will probably make a comeback at some point as copper becomes more expensive.