Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
.jpg "London transport users engage with their devices – and indium, terbium, lithium, cobalt, copper and numerous other critical minerals.Photo: PjrTransport/Alamy")
Can mining save the world?
555 - May, 2025
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They are touted as our way out of climate chaos and essential for making the things we use, from mobile phones to electric vehicles. Vanessa Baird sets out to investigate critical minerals – and the rush to get them.
Are public service cuts justified?
437 - November, 2010
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Banker Dan Mobley goes head to head with tax justice campaigner John Christensen.
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