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Not all network cables are the same
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The geographic distribution of current extraction and reserves of these critical raw materials paints a certainly different map than that of fossil fuel extraction. While the Middle East has been the geostrategic epicenter for the supply of hydrocarbons, now the focus is on other areas of the planet. The key regions for the exploitation of these elements are concentrated in the global South and in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, Oceania and China.


Despite the incessant search for these critical minerals, the form India Email List timing of the implementation of the "Decarbonization Consensus" trigger contradictions even among its own promoters. The exacerbation of schizophrenic behaviors and policies – or double bind [double bind], to use Gregory Bateson's terms9– seems to be a sign of the civilizational polycrisis. There are those who, even acknowledging its importance, intend to delay decarbonization and extract every last drop of oil, as is the case with many fossil fuel companies and their lobbies .towards governments.






One example was President Joe Biden who, going back on his electoral promise, approved the Willow Project in March 2023, which makes it possible to advance the expansion of the oil frontier in the Alaskan Arctic, thus endangering an extremely fragile and already punished by the melting of the ice due to global warming. Another example comes from the European Union which, while seeking to expand the European Green Deal, opted to return to coal in mid-2022, using the war-accelerated energy crisis in Ukraine as justification. Thus, the German government ordered in January 2023 the demolition of a village to make way for the expansion of a lignite coal mine, the most polluting type of coal among fossil fuels. At the same time,EU to allocate part of these funds to the development of green hydrogen10.