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Video: The Heartland Institute
Rare earth elements, lithium, cobalt, and other critical minerals are essential to electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, smartphones, and modern electronics. But as governments push a rapid transition toward so-called green energy, an uncomfortable question is often left out of the conversation: where do these materials come from, and who pays the price to obtain them?
In this Energy at a Glance video, The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken examines the environmental damage, supply-chain dependence, and alleged forced and child labor connected to critical-mineral production. From China’s dominance of rare-earth processing to dangerous cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the green-energy transition has consequences that deserve honest scrutiny.
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