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“An essential read for anyone concerned about the future.”

—Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction

From Award-Winning Journalist Vince BEiser

“Eye-opening…
A must read.”

—Daniel Pink,
The Power of Regret

Power Metal should be the next book you read.”

—Mark Kurlansky,
Salt and Cod

“[A] bracing tour of how we are destroying the planet in the name of saving it.”

—Parag Khanna,
Connectography and Move

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“An essential read for anyone concerned about the future.”

—Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction

From Award-Winning Journalist Vince BEiser

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“Eye-opening…
A must read.”

—Daniel Pink,
The Power of Regret

Power Metal should be the next book you read.”

—Mark Kurlansky,
Salt and Cod

“[A] bracing tour of how we are destroying the planet in the name of saving it.”

—Parag Khanna,
Connectography and Move

Humanity is facing a brutal paradox:

We must switch to renewable energy and electric vehicles to stave off the catastrophes of climate change—but in doing so we may create a whole other set of catastrophes.

About Vince

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author. He has reported from over 100 countries, states, provinces, kingdoms, occupied territories, no man’s lands and disaster zones. Vince has exposed conditions in California’s harshest prisons, trained with US Army soldiers, ridden with the first responders to natural disasters, and hunted down other stories from around the world.

About Power Metal

The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence — and how we can do better.

Praise for Vince's Work

Power Metal  is a necessary, illuminating, and often shocking read.

John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather

Vince Beiser’s Power Metal should be the next book you read.

Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt and Cod

...a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our planet.

Daniel Pink, author of
Drive and The Power of Regret

A powerful lens on an under-reported environmental crisis.

Nature (on The World in a Grain)

Beiser peppers research with first-person interviews in an engaging and nuanced introduction to the ways sand has shaped the world.... stunning.

NPR

The World in a Grain is nothing less than one of the best reporters working today unpacking the literal foundations of civilization.

Adam Rogers, author of Proof: The Science of Booze

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Also by Vince Beiser

The deadly global war for the world’s most important yet most overlooked commodity: sand.

“[An] impassioned and alarming report on sand… In Beiser’s artful telling, the planet is caught up in a vicious, sand-fueled cycle.”

—Washington Post

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Mining and the clean energy paradox
NPR's Marketplace

Today we’re talking about a key piece of the global transition to renewable energy: metals. Specifically, metals like copper, lithium and cobalt that we need to build wind turbines, electric vehicles and to improve our energy grid.