Todd N. TuckerApr 30, 2023

Decades of public disinvestment in developing country governing capacity
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Decades of corporate disinvestment in policing their offshored and outsourced supply chains

Is not a recipe for success at a time of rapid shifts in material needs.
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RT @Rachel_Chason
On EVs and rural Guinea:

Aboubacar Diaby was perplexed when he spotted a team of Chinese workers trekking through the potato and peanut fields in his rural in northwestern …
https://twitter.com/Rachel_Chason/status/1652005948855054337

Rachel Chason on Twitter

“On EVs and rural Guinea: Aboubacar Diaby was perplexed when he spotted a team of Chinese workers trekking through the potato and peanut fields in his rural in northwestern Guinea, digging holes with strange equipment “What,” the local leader asked, “are you doing here?””

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Failure to reckon with austerity's harms is now hitting developing and developed countries alike, and always the former harder.
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Mapping levels of concentration of EV supply chains in China.

Compare this to 13-country OPEC, which controls *only* 40 percent of global petroleum market.

China controls far more than that in key EV materials.

Apr 30, 2023 at 3:06pmWeb
Show threadTodd N. TuckerApr 30, 2023
Other stunning visualizations here
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/electric-car-batteries-geography/?itid=ap_aaronsteckelberg
The underbelly of electric cars: Where all those EV batteries come from

Mining and processing the minerals needed to meet the growing demand for EVs can be costly for workers, local communities and the environment.

The Washington Post