Sustainability and Future

Examining the spatial inequalities of the green transition and how the Global North's 'sustainability' depends on the Global South's vulnerability.

Examining how the promise of closed-loop recycling masks the reality of entropic loss and the rebound effect in battery production.

A critical exploration of the green energy transition's hidden costs, examining how lithium mining perpetuates colonial extraction while claiming sustainability.

Exploring how the promise of sustainable mining depends on rendering ecological and social costs invisible through 'entropic omissions.'

Exploring how the milkman model of reusable bottles compares environmentally to modern packaging, revealing the complexities of true circular systems.

Exploring the inconvenient truths of the circular economy, from thermodynamic limits to systemic barriers, and how to build a more realistic and just system.

The geography of the periodic table is the new geography of power. In the 20th century, geopolitics was governed by the distribution of hydrocarbons; in the 21st, it is governed by the concentration of critical elements.

The extraction of lithium from the 'Lithium Triangle' in South America represents one of the most significant interventions in the Earth's hydrological cycle.

A series exploring the lithium scarcity paradox, from extraction challenges to circular economy solutions and geopolitical implications.

The history of human progress is a record of material dependence where the era of dominance is named after the enabling substance: stone, bronze, and iron.