Joseph Lim 6d ago
#China must hear #river warnings⚠️
"🇨🇳embassy's stmt poured fuel on fire. For >a year, #Thailand's #Pollution Control Dept repeatedly detected #heavymetals exceed'g #safety standards in te Kok, Sai, Ruak & #Mekong rivers. Contaminants hv entered te #foodchain..🤦‍♂️ Yet te embassy's stmt appeared to gloss over tis reality.. Thai local communities hv long qn'ed PRC's role in #rareearth #mining in 🇲🇲.. 🇨🇳's rare #earth invts hv caused environmental damage in neighbouring countries"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3265538/china-must-hear-river-warnings
Japan Pop NewsJun 3
https://www.wacoca.com/news/2852279/ 国産レアアースへ一歩 脱中国で強靱な国へ SIPプログラムディレクターの石井正一氏 | JAPAN Forward ##中華人民共和国 #China #JAMSTEC #minamitorishima #RareEarth #経済・テクノロジー
OccasionalDucksMay 31

Interesting episode of Rare Earth (okay, okay, they all are!) on fossil fuels, from Friday:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ww0s

#RareEarth #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #DontLookUp

Rare Earth - Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind - BBC Sounds

Tom Heap and Helen Czerski ask whether war is accelerating the shift from fossil fuels

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AstroMancer5G (she/her)May 29

#AlignedAI is still a #scam. Regardless of any #values supposedly programmed into #AI, it still uses enormous amounts of #energy, and #RareEarth #CriticalMinerals ill-gotten through #mining #extraction in the #GlobalSouth. It still has a limited group of #creators and #owners who hold immense #power through it. It's still #stealing the #work of countless #people, with no #consent or #benefit to them. And its #output is still #random with no #concept of #truth.

How is it #different at all?

Walk NewsMay 25
https://www.walknews.com/1308616/ 脱中国のレアアース供給網、価格で負けぬ仕組みの具体化を | JAPAN Forward #China #G7 #minamitorishima #RareEarth #SupplyChain #中国 #中華人民共和国 #経済・テクノロジー
AtemuMay 23

Just saw @rareearth's video on #Esperanto. Wow is there ever some history to it; I did not know that!

https://nebula.tv/videos/rareearth-the-doctor-hitler-feared/
https://youtu.be/S8kV18UQRG8

#RareEarth

Rare Earth — The Doctor Hitler Feared

The history of the Pale of Settlement, the rise of ultranationalism, and the march towards the holocaust as told through the story of LL Zamenhof and the invention of the universal language we now call Esperanto.

Nebula
The-14May 23
Rush for critical minerals harming world’s poorest
#CriticalMinerals #Mining #Environment #Africa #ClimateChange #WaterCrisis #HumanRights #DRC #Lithium #Cobalt #Pollution #GlobalSouth #GreenEnergy #Sustainability #WaterSecurity #RareEarth
https://the-14.com/rush-for-critical-minerals-harming-worlds-poorest/
Rush for critical minerals harming world’s poorest | The-14

The global rush for lithium and cobalt is polluting water, harming health, and deepening inequality in vulnerable mining regions worldwide.

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Obbie KingMay 17

I'm glad to see the band #RareEarth getting a lot of mention in the news these days. I remember hearing this Detroit band described as "the only White band on Motown." They had a few hits in the 70s doing some stock Motown tunes.

I met some members of the band in a Motel 6 parking lot in 1990. I had just completed summer #Dead tour, and they were between shows on the county fair circuit.

Respectable guys, decent band, I'm glad they're getting attention. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmxgwuMMGrP9qIdbpCeQeNsntDK9dsTXw

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SilkesterMay 17

Environmental tolerance is quiet a euphemism for destroying a region for centuries with giant acid lakes that threaten settlements with spills every time there is a heavy rain storm, all the while the acid is working on the integrity of the damn or something or other...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q95xzDQUxzI

But otherwise the above and the following video link are enlightening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1eGSCvUO0

#China #GlobalEconomy #Economy #RareEarth #Deficit #trade

China’s Rare Earth Chokehold!

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Sreedev KrishnakumarMay 14

Trump landed in Beijing on Wednesday for perhaps the most important visit of his second presidency. While his rhetoric on protectionism to revive the US economy remains the same, the world and China have both changed much since his last visit. We explored this further in today's HT Number Theory.

Read on HT app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/the-sino-us-dynamic-trade-war-possible-peace-number-theory-101778727753070.html

#Trump #Xi #XiJingping #China #Summit #Trade #Economy #Tariff #DataViz #RareEarth #Geopolitics