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Title:<\/strong> Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author:<\/strong> Henry Sanderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Oneworld<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year:<\/strong> 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

About two-thirds of the way through Volt Rush<\/em>, Henry Sanderson interrupts his description of the pack of corporate scavengers picking over central Africa\u2019s copper belt to quote the first lines of V S Naipaul\u2019s unremittingly bleak novel of post-colonial commerce A Bend in the River<\/em>. \u2018The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a book built around hard science and shoe-leather journalism \u2013 Sanderson was the Financial Times<\/em> commodities and mining correspondent for six years \u2013 the literary excursus is unexpected. It\u2019s nevertheless oddly congruous, in topic and in tone. Volt Rush<\/em>, like A Bend in the River<\/em>, is about progress\u2019s secret kinship with collapse, and the dark paths dreams take as they turn into nightmares. Batteries, the hidden midwives of the renewables revolution, are here to save the world: that\u2019s how Elon Musk sees it. But when viewed from the polluted deserts<\/a> of Chile, the 24\/7 factories of China and the half-ruined mines of central Africa, they seem like they\u2019re here to condemn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speculation meets geopolitics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We begin with a series of sacred cows, marked for the abattoir. The first conceit to the slaughter: solar, wind and tide energy are only as renewable as the batteries they depend on. Two: those batteries aren\u2019t renewable at all. In fact, as Sanderson outlines in brisk, business-like prose, they\u2019re reliant on a massive programme of resource extraction. Somewhere north of 40 times the amount of lithium<\/a> currently in circulation \u2013 per year \u2013 will be needed to end petrol vehicles. Copper, cobalt and nickel will be required too, in unprecedented quantities. Quantities a host of variably ethical corporate entities are alternately keen to locate and happy to provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanderson\u2019s second act starts here, in the shadowy borderland where speculation and geopolitics meet. China plays a starring role, predictably enough. Unwilling to disturb the pax americana with an expensive, and quixotic, arms race, the PRC buys up supply chains instead: butter over guns. A panicked, senescent EU, desperate to smooth the electric transition of Europe\u2019s bloated car industry \u2013 one in 20 Europeans are employed by it<\/a> \u2013 is a late but enthusiastic entry to the game. And, navigating the ragged, money-spinning edges of legality and ethics, the battle-scarred condottieri of international capital \u2013 like the malignant Glencore metals and minerals company \u2013 ride again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize is the galvanic heart of a future world: one running on lithium, not oil. Elon Musk<\/a> and his charmless cohort of entrepreneur-seers make futurist cameos here, though prophecies of sea-floor strip mines<\/a> and desert-wide refineries sound like a threat, not a promise. Mining is infamously environmentally unfriendly; the likely impact of the \u2018green revolution\u2019 ought to give pause to partisans on the left, if scope alone doesn\u2019t do the job. The industry doesn\u2019t play nicely with people either, inflicting reliably horrific human damage<\/a> with every pound of lithium we drag from the bloodied earth. An indirect future benefit for the climate is mortgaged on a great deal of direct ecological destruction in the here and now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lithium-lit uplands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an article of faith for some that capitalism can\u2019t manage the climate crisis. Volt Rush<\/em> demonstrates in anatomic detail how dated that view is becoming. Even the villainous Glencore is forced, by Volt Rush<\/em>\u2019s end, to reconsider its indurate love of coal. A \u2018green\u2019 transition is possible under the present system of affairs. Across the third world, as Sanderson demonstrates, it\u2019s already beginning to unfold. But transition for whom? And towards what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanderson\u2019s smooth, limpid storytelling brightens the deadening business of commodities trading: attention to the bizarre, often unpleasant characters populating the industry gives his narrative a personable shine. It makes his eventual retreat into techno-optimism all the more striking. A grim story of profiteers and environmental collapse culminates in a homiletic reflection on the broad lithium-lit uplands opening up for the whole human race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an article of faith for some that capitalism can\u2019t manage the climate crisis. Volt Rush demonstrates in anatomic detail how dated that view is becoming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But surprise \u2013 at least in this case \u2013 has to be tempered with the discomfort of self-recognition. Indefinite exploitation of finite resources; the maintenance, or expansion, of the extraction economy; the overarching, non-negotiable need to keep the industrial economy functioning as it has for two hundred years \u2013 the left might have more in common with Elon Musk than we\u2019d like to admit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Net zero\u2019 presents itself as a clean break with the bad old carboniferous era but from the perspective of a Congolese child miner, or an indigenous Colombian, it\u2019s more of the same. From the perspective of the natural world, exploited and destroyed in methods and regions previously unimaginable, it spells the escalation, not the end, of the disaster. The environmental benefits of the battery revolution, considered outside the arid realm of emissions statistics, seem dubious. To paraphrase the old Vietnam war saying: has it become necessary to destroy the environment in order to save it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowhere is safe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018green revolution\u2019, confined to a shift in the focus of the industrial economy, leaves extant structures of power \u2013 and disempowerment \u2013 untouched. It prolongs destructive patterns of consumption, attenuates parasitic corporate cartels, intensifies paleo-imperialist exploitation of the third world. Worst of all, it stops us thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An opportunity to radically reimagine humanity\u2019s relationship to the natural world is being squandered. Instead, as Volt Rush<\/em> comprehensively \u2013 if not always intentionally \u2013 demonstrates, we\u2019re offered a future that looks much like the past. Lithium-sinewed, cobalt-limbed, breathing waste, drinking air: the system continues. So will the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final pages of A Bend in the River<\/em>, one character warns the protagonist: don\u2019t hope. \u2018Nobody\u2019s going anywhere,\u2019 he says. \u2018We\u2019re all going to hell, and everyone knows this in his bones. Everyone wants to make his money and run away. But where?\u2019 Naipaul had no illusions about the world we\u2019ve made for ourselves. Nowhere, he wrote, is safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madoc Cairns is a staff writer at The Tablet<\/em><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared in issue #237, Autumn 2022, Power in Unions<\/em>. Subscribe<\/a> today to get your magazine delivered hot off the press!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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