Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

W.W. Norton, Forthcoming

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism explores the rapidly emerging global lithium industry, which is required to source batteries essential to green economies, electric vehicles, and wind and solar energy storage, but does so through environmentally destructive mining.

Traveling along the global lithium frontier from Chile to Portugal to Nevada, Riofrancos unveils a world-historic energy transition fraught with geopolitical tension, corporate power, environmental damage, and militant protest, and offering new paradigms that can rejoin the movements for clean energy and social justice.