[MCN] MINING.com May 11, 2020 : Demand for battery metals to jump 500%

[Lance Olsen]

MINING.com May 11, 2020

Demand for battery metals to jump 500% by 2050 - MINING.COM <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiRWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1pbmluZy5jb20vZGVtYW5kLWZvci1iYXR0ZXJ5LW1ldGFscy10by1qdW1wLTUwMC1ieS0yMDUwL9IBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Production of so-called battery metals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will have to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 to meet the growing demand for clean ...
MINING.com
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“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."

John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973

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“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation.”

Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. 
Science 31 August 2018 



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