Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea

Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea Riofrancos

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In 2019, mines expelled 100 billion tonnes of solid waste. Vast and destructive almost beyond imagination, mining is nevertheless essential to the green transition: without the minerals that we pull from the Earth, we cannot wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Thea Riofrancos is associate professor of political science at Providence College and an expert on […]

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