Circus AND Circuit: Unraveling Global Trade with Kate Foronda
Kate Foronda
20 episodes
1 week ago
In this episode, Kate Foronda explores the minerals that quietly power our world from lithium and cobalt to aluminium and rare earth elements. These resources drive electric vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence, but they also carry enormous environmental, social, and geopolitical costs. Kate shares insights from her travels across Chile, where she saw how mining has shaped communities from the oil fields of the south to the lithium basins of the north. She unpacks how...
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In this episode, Kate Foronda explores the minerals that quietly power our world from lithium and cobalt to aluminium and rare earth elements. These resources drive electric vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence, but they also carry enormous environmental, social, and geopolitical costs. Kate shares insights from her travels across Chile, where she saw how mining has shaped communities from the oil fields of the south to the lithium basins of the north. She unpacks how...
Episode 18: Crude Realities: Decarbonization Without De-Petrolization
Circus AND Circuit: Unraveling Global Trade with Kate Foronda
19 minutes
3 weeks ago
Episode 18: Crude Realities: Decarbonization Without De-Petrolization
A few weeks after NYC Climate Week 2025, oil prices are rising again. Another round of global pledges was made — yet tankers, pipelines, and LNG terminals keep expanding. We call it decarbonization, but the world hasn’t really de-petrolized. In this episode, I take a hard look at the paradox behind our “green transition.” From OPEC+ fall meetings to Aramco’s profits, from Russia’s shadow exports to AI data centers that still run on fossil power — the story is clear: energy might b...
Circus AND Circuit: Unraveling Global Trade with Kate Foronda
In this episode, Kate Foronda explores the minerals that quietly power our world from lithium and cobalt to aluminium and rare earth elements. These resources drive electric vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence, but they also carry enormous environmental, social, and geopolitical costs. Kate shares insights from her travels across Chile, where she saw how mining has shaped communities from the oil fields of the south to the lithium basins of the north. She unpacks how...
