It's a little known fact that a lot of green technology, like wind turbines and electric cars, depend on rare metals. To be honest, a lot of ANY modern technology depends on these rare metals: Your PC and mobile for starters.
The problem is 90%+ of these metals currently come from China and they increasingly want to keep most it for their own industries. Whether they intend to monopolise the market in these technologies, or simply need them to sustain their own meteoric economic growth, is uncertain, but it's worrying. They could single-handedly stop the growth and development of the very green technology we all need to reduce CO2 emissions. Read more here.
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