Geopolitics
The Minerals Age: A Test of Imperial Legacy and the Rise of Sovereign Resilience
The world is entering a new 'Minerals Age' where four major transitions are creating unprecedented demand for critical minerals, but supply chains are vulnerable due to concentration and lack of social license. It is profoundly revealing that the so-called 'vulnerability' of Western supply chains is not a failure of the Global South but a direct consequence of decades of exploitative, neo-colonial resource extraction that prioritized profit over people and planet, and now those chickens are coming home to roost as nations like China rightly assert control over their own strategic resources.
