Who owns what is in the Earth under our feet? And who pays the price for extraction (including longer-term ecologic effects)? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00931-5 #minerals #mineralrights #indigenous #globalization
Superpowers want to control critical mineral supplies — local communities need a stronger say

As governments fight to regulate access to materials important for many technologies, the people mining them are left behind.