Ian Morse

The Mining Hop | Book(s) Review Review of The War Below and Power Metal, two 2024 books that grapple with mining for climate action

Finally got the reviews out 😬 open.substack.com/pub/greenroc...

Are you telling me legally blonde is not about extractivism

We just need to have a movie sleepover in the lab

Following the transition to decarbonize energy systems?

Want to get to the bottom of the environmental, technical & human rights issues?

Our April 8 webinar will dive deep w/ guests Galina Angarova/SIRGE Coalition & reporter @ianjmorse.bsky.social more info here: mongabay.org/register-for...

Also new project with geologists and social scientists investigating whether basalts are a feasible tool
portal.research.lu.se/sv/projects/...

For Captured Carbon, Scientists Plot a Sub-Ocean Tomb It's a contentious idea, but supporters say storing CO2 under the seafloor could help address climate change—if it can scale up.

50-80 wind turbines, several DAC installations, undersea pipelines, and it still only captures 0.01% of what advocates say is needed, but who really knows if it's captured?
undark.org/2024/02/19/c...

Indonesia turns traditional Indigenous land into nickel industrial zone Indonesia is building out a critical battery materials hub but the expansion of its nickel industy is infringing Indigenous rights

As Indonesians ready to go to the polls, Indigenous peoples in Sulawesi allege rights violations over the rapidly expanding nickel industry supplying battery materials for EVs.

Great reporting by Franco Bravo Dengo & @ianjmorse.bsky.social

cleanenergyfrontier.climatechangenews.com/indonesia-ni...

Just a fantastic first podcast interview for @ianjmorse.bsky.social's brilliant Green Rocks newsletter with Chris Pollon - tackles the leading edge in how to massively reduce mining during the energy transition (acknowledging that it'll be non zero)

pca.st/episode/1f72...

There's so many more questions to ask about the types of investment, structure of mining companies, materials of clean tech and demand-side alternatives

BlackRock warns investor disdain for mining threatens green transition World’s biggest asset manager hits out at complacency over supply of transition metals

When there's no attention to conflict of interest or questions posed to people who actually work in climate mitigation: The FT trumpets investors claims that mining ought to be included in ESG frameworks.
www.ft.com/content/12b3...

Chuffed to have won the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting for an investigation I worked on about Indonesia's palm oil smallholders scheme - here's the Mongabay article (news.mongabay.com/2022/05/the-... ) and a Twitter thread I did about it back in the old days (twitter.com/philjacobius... )

In the Pitfall introduction, I similarly recount how an oil and gas CEO silenced a room of activists at a conference I was attending, simply by asking if any of them used oil. It’s a successful rhetorical strategy, because it reflects an indisputable truth. We can’t live in comfort without mining. Where I differ with this speaker, is what we should do about this dependence. If we need mining, especially to save the world from climate change, how well we do it must be everyone’s business. How do we minimize the harms?

Justice is about so much more than minimizing harms
from: thetyee.ca/Culture/2023...

oh how I wish to find a mining book that doesn't have the line "we need more mining"

Thanks!

Some of my favorite stories:
www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/16/1...

chinadialogue.net/en/food/the-...

thegeckoproject.org/topics/plasma/

news.mongabay.com/2021/10/deep...

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

Select Reporting I've reported stories for The New York Times, Washington Post, Mongabay, the BBC, Al Jazeera, MIT Technology Review, Undark Magazine, New Scientist, Science Magazine, The Gecko Project, Noema Magazine...

Now I live in Seattle, and I'm interested in how businesses are approaching climate action in various sectors. And I still do work in Indonesia
ian-morse.com/writings/

Green Rocks | Ian Morse | Substack A newsletter that doesn't want dirty mining to ruin clean energy. Click to read Green Rocks, by Ian Morse, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

....which is just about everything. What fascinates me is the effect of climate action on the industry, and how people view it. That sparked my newsletter on mining and climate: greenrocks.substack.com

With the hope that BlueSky is more productive than its competitors, I'll introduce my work:
When I lived in rural Indonesia, I started investigating nickel from mines to consumer products, setting the stage for a global conversation about it. Now I cover everything minerals touch
ian-morse.com

Will investigate. But most of gold is an original bitcoin right - people just believe it’s worth something (thanks to world gold council, for one)

Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing. I’ve been pondering how to more completely cover the gold industry

This documentary film explores the varied and often surprising ways in which gold and the societies it is part of have transformed over time.Join Idris Elba ... Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba

Uh oh, Idris Elba headlines a film about gold produced by the World Gold Council. posting for records
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Ui...