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SUMMARY:Living Minerals: Nature\, Trade and Power in the Race for Lithium
LOCATION:Bolivar House\, 582 Alvarado Row\, Stanford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:Lithium has been described as ‘white gold’\, the next oil\, or
  a kind of savior from climate change. Consumers are buying electric vehi
 cles with lithium-ion batteries motivated by the belief that they are doi
 ng good and decarbonizing society. But\, is there any truth in these big 
 claims? Is sustainable lithium extraction possible? In Living Minerals\, 
 Javiera Barandiarán examines the history of lithium mining and uses durin
 g the 20th century to understand the current mining boom and why the rush
  to mine more lithium is unlikely to resolve climate change unless some k
 ind of sustainable trade is developed.\n\nCommentator: Luksic Visiting Sc
 holar Rodrigo Contreras-Arratia\, Civil Works and Geology\, Universidad C
 atólica de Temuco\, Chile\n\nLivestream Link\n\nJaviera Barandiarán is Pr
 ofessor and department chair in Global Studies at the University of Calif
 ornia\, Santa Barbara and director of the CREW Center for Restorative Env
 ironmental Work. She received her PhD at UC Berkeley in Environmental Sci
 ence\, Policy and Management and a Masters in Public Policy also from Ber
 keley\, and completed her undergraduate studies in Politics at the Univer
 sity of Edinburgh. Her research explores the intersection of science\, en
 vironment\, and development in Latin America. Her books include Living Mi
 nerals: Nature\, Trade and Power in the Race for Lithium and Science and 
 Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democ
 racy\, both with MIT Press. She has two collaboratively authored books \n
 \nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/853e175f-9f15-4770-ab90-c9a3200c229d
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/853e175f-9f15-4770-ab90-c9a3200c229d
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