What should “we” do? Subjects and scales in the double-bind between energy transition and lithium extraction

• Published in: The extractive industries and society Vol. 17; p. 101376
• Main Authors: Köppel, Jonas, Scoville-Simonds, Morgan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2024
• Subjects: Critical raw materials; Dilemma; Energy transition; Ethics; Lithium; Narratives; Scales; Ethics; Critical raw materials; Narratives; Dilemma; Energy transition; Lithium; Scales

•Offers ethnographic reflections on ethical tensions related to energy transition, battery value chains, and raw material extraction.•Focuses on the key dilemma between “solving climate change” and “sacrificing local livelihoods and ecosystems”.•Interrogates the dilemma and the received categories (...