【礦產，能源，與循環相害的環境危機】 對21世紀來說，礦產是一個看似倒退、重度汙染、危險且不環保的產業。 但其實至今人類依舊大量開採礦產，原因就是─能源開發與電子產品製作的大量需求，導致礦產業反而繼續在世界各地蓬勃發展，特別是西方國家在對中亞、中東與非洲國家能源的大肆開採，搜刮珍貴的鋰、鈷、鎳、銅等元素，而當地人民則可能受到這些跨國大企業的壓榨與利用。 We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining. Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a ‘greener’ world.