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My understanding is that these "rare" earth metals are not actually rare at all. They are just hard to extract and refine - hence the Chinese stranglehold because they have refining capacity. Having them in the ground or having rights to mine them doesn't mean much on its own.

Bingo

Just ask nicely for the mining rights.

strip mine Greenland wow seriously

I love wired, but.....

I don't like Elon trying to steal Canaga and Greenland, he can fuck right off.

…the timing of this article How much did the Trump org pay you?

It was supposed to say "Greenlanders". Thank you, autocorrect.

A climate solution, and all you have to do is melt a kilometre-thick ice cap to reach it

Eat the biggest shit, Wired.

Wired, please. If American government wanted clean energy, Trump would not reverse all policies that supported it. The problem is not China. Republicans for decades ignore climate science.

Melting needs way time. Not 50 years. But gonna happen. Climate crisis already happens : heating, extreme weather events, dying/collapsing of the bio-geo-chemicalsphere unfolds befor our very eyes NOW, not 2100. This is not a solution, its a magic pipe dream and distracts from real solutions NOW.

It's so funny "clean energy" is the pitch, when there's no way in hell those resources would be used for anything other than building more techno feudalism horror.

The argument for why fossil fuel driven mining will pave the way for a green future and save the world from climate change is weak. This article ignores political realities entirely and has the stink of paid lobbyists.

We can pay Greenland for those minerals. They belong to Greenland

Most of the known deposits are in Canada, Greenland and Africa. Trump has pissed of Canada and Greenland. Through his lack of understanding of soft power, China now has greater influence in Africa.

There was an ree “boom” about 4 years ago when China started messing with supply. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The issues with REE isn’t a lack of deposits. 1) China controls the market and can manipulate prices to keep competitors out of the market, 2) the metallurgy is complex 3) the supply chain needs to be established outside of China www.src.sk.ca/blog/buildin...

Yes, and... his colonizer aspirations to go down in history as the Emperor and Wicked Wizard of the West (ewww...).

Really? This Trump-enabling horseshit is not journalism. The author and Wired should be ashamed to publish this. Wtf?

Or maybe even some of those RAW minerals Trump talks so much about.

If anyone wants rare earths, they should trade for them like civilised adults.

And the US has zero claim to the minerals or Greenland. The regime needs to get off this imperialism bullshit.

In a civilized world, with (formerly) aligned interests in buttressing Chinese aggression and mercantilism, the U.S., EU, Canada & Mexico could have made a deal to make all of them, including Greenland, economically better off & more stable. With the new US aggression, that is off the table

Don’t let Americans in!!!!

Clean energy by destroying everything...and polluting.

Millions of years old virus stuck in the permafrost

Is this going to be the new “you have WMDs” excuse? Oh we need to make those those “climate change saving rare earth elements” are used wisely!

Trump plan in place to grab those minerals.

There is no sense of logic behind. Searching for sense only gives you headaches.

They know it exists- they just pretend not to “because fuck you.” It’s not that complex.

So called "clean" energy doesn't exist. For every source there's pollution involved. The extraction of rare earths is environmentally worse than drilling for oil. Shame on Wired for such gaslighting. This is not about China either. It's about greed. Say it like it is.

Now thats a bullshit headline. China doesn't have a choke hold on rare earth minerals. Canada has a shitload too. Thats why your ignorant inbred pedophile President wants to annex Canada.