Steve Rushton

How minerals will drive geopolitics, as oil already does

by me for the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice

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Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century.

Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.

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The World Cannot Afford Electric Vehicles If we embraced integrated public transport rather than the rush to fill our cities with EVs, there would be much more space for parks and society on foot.

The world cannot afford electric vehicles

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My latest article with focus on #CriticalMinerals

#Degrowth
#ElectricVehicles

"In fact, almost everything worthwhile that has come out of British culture for the last century, from music hall, to street kebabs, to standup comedy, rock 'n' roll, and the rave scene, has been primarily a working-class phenomenon. Essentially, these were the things the working-class created when they weren’t actually working. The sprouting of British popular culture in the 60s was a product of the UK’s then very generous welfare state….and a surprising proportion of major bands later to sweep the world spent at least some of their formative years on unemployment relief." David Graeber

My Friend David Graeber The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.

5 years since he passed. Rest in play David Graeber

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MSM is complicit in genocide

Bullshit Space in Capitalism’s core — DOPE Magazine T he downstairs two floors of the global bank UBS's 13-storey headquarters lie empty. In the City of London, this space – dubbed a 'double-height reception' – is barren of activity. Except for the m...

Why are there so many empty spaces and voids in the City, in capitalism's core? These are Bullshit Spaces!

Me for @DopeMagazine developing ideas from #DavidGraeber #BullshitJobs

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Critically Rethinking Minerals—and the Cost of Extraction In the green transition, the IEA predicts lithium usage will rise by 40 times the current amount by 2050, while graphite, nickel and cobalt use will increase 20 times. Can we imagine a different futur...

Degrowth offers so many ways we could imagine a future beyond endless mining and the crises it brings. It's time to broaden out this political debate that will determine the future so we can get off the path towards the billionaires' dystopia.

#criticalminerals
#degrowth

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Digging Deep into Trump's Aims to Annex Greenland Behind the scenes, the billionaires backing Trump have serious plans to build a techno-futuristic, regulation-free city on Greenland to serve as a stepping stone to Mars.

Trump and co's dystopian "freedom cities" also connects to plans to colonise Greenland, and then mars.

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Digging Deep into Trump's Aims to Annex Greenland Behind the scenes, the billionaires backing Trump have serious plans to build a techno-futuristic, regulation-free city on Greenland to serve as a stepping stone to Mars.

This all sounds dystopian. It's not fiction. Billionaires with corporate interests from Silicon Valley to the military, from mining and oil extraction to cryptocurrencies, are backing a new wave of US expansionism.

#CriticalMinerals
#ArcticOpening

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Minerals, Like Oil, Will Drive the Wars and Conflict this Century Minerals touted as essential for the “Green Transition” are central in ongoing wars from Ukraine to Myanmar, and to Trump's ambitions to take over Canada and Greenland.

Capitalists argue all the minerals are need for a #GreenTransition

In reality, "A great deal of the demand is for war machines and technology. Wars are being fought to control these minerals, which replicates how wars have often been fought for oil."

#CriticalMinerals
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Sign the Petition Stop the felling of three healthy lime trees on Trelawney Road in Falmouth.

Less chop 👎 More green 💚 www.change.org/p/stop-the-f...

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

You can't make this shit up.

"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém."

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How to respect indigenous rights in the Arctic US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland have created concern globally. However blatant his approach, the shock element masks the fact that the entire capitalist system foll…

This is an in-depth well-researched exploration of the whole issue of 'opening up' the Arctic to commercial exploitation and mineral extraction, and how to resist it ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/d... #Trump #Sami #Arctic #North #Sweden #Greenland

How to respect indigenous rights in the Arctic US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland have created concern globally. However blatant his approach, the shock element masks the fact that the entire capitalist system foll…

On Inuit and Sami indigenous rights and how to protect the Arctic and Greenland from Trump and industrial exploitation by @steve-rushton.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/d...

Britain Is Sleepwalking Towards Far-Right Populism In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.

In many places the rise of the populist far-right seemed unlikely, not possible. Then it happened. And it seemed inevitable.

latest by me about the dysfunctional state of Britain for Occupy.com

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"Everywhere the centrist argument that the Left has to abandon its principles to fight fascism, leaving the only choice between corporate bureaucrats and Nazis, has had the effect of empowering Nazis. That's a failed formula every time." -David Graeber

Today would have been Graeber's birthday. I recommend checking out his work.

Collectively Resisting Fascism and Building Alternatives in Naples The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.

Collectively resisting fascism and building alternatives in Naples

by me

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#UrbanCommons #Municipalism

Degrowth Municipalism could change the world A panel discussion about Degrowth and Municipalism, at the international municipalist summit Fearless Cities in Sheffield November 2-3rd, explored the overlaps between the two movements. Degrowth a…

Degrowth Municipalism could change the world
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Cities were crucial in humanity's journey long before capitalism & other structural oppression. Through Degrowth Municipalism cities can continue this role as these human constructions fade into history.

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#FearlessCities