Two things happened during the middle week of May that propelled the importance of a cleaner energy future even more onto centre stage. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, halted the ability to pay for his company’s products through cryptocurrency. Left unchecked, global warming will reach 4.1°C to 4.8°C above pre-industrial levels by 2099. Ironically, the drive towards cleaner energy generation – and thus moving away from humans’ millennia-long reliance on carbon to generate heat – has increased the demand for certain minerals. One just needs to look at the share prices of the miners of these metals lately to see how the demand and supply dynamics of the mined minerals are playing out.

Source: News 24 June 10, 2021 09:22 UTC