{"id":3174,"date":"2021-12-26T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energiesnet.com\/espanol\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T12:08:14","slug":"emmett-lindner-nyt-in-congo-bolivia-and-beyond-where-the-green-future-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energiesnet.com\/espanol\/emmett-lindner-nyt-in-congo-bolivia-and-beyond-where-the-green-future-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmett Lindner\/NYT: In Congo, Bolivia and Beyond, Where the Green Future Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Times\u2019s Race to the Future series is focused on the competition for electric-car resources that will shape the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like prospectors in the American West during the gold rush, companies and self-starters are racing to far-flung places around the globe to mine the natural resources that will drive the technology of the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times\u2019s ongoing Race to the Future series is documenting the geopolitical, economic and environmental wrangling that is shaping the shift from fossil fuels to electricity in vehicle technology. Times journalists from four desks are collaborating to shed light on the scramble for metals and the players involved: local residents with pickaxes, celebrity investors eyeing business deals and government-backed corporations elbowing for control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first articles in the series were published last month and focused on the Democratic Republic of Congo and its huge reserves of cobalt<\/a>, a component in the batteries of electric cars. In recent weeks, other articles profiled a Chinese company that dominates the electric-car battery market<\/a> (it has bought two of Congo\u2019s largest cobalt deposits over the past five years), and the competition in Bolivia, where a quarter of the world\u2019s known lithium<\/a> \u2014 another crucial metal \u2014 is caked within salt flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are in a historic moment when the fossil fuel industry isn\u2019t just in decline but is actually being replaced,\u201d said Dean Murphy, the investigations editor at The Times who is overseeing the series. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot at stake in that transition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Race to the Future began to take shape at the beginning of 2021. Eric Lipton<\/a>, a Times investigative reporter based in Washington, was struck by a push to accelerate mining permits in the American West and by a World Bank report that outlined the billions of tons of raw materials the world would need in order to move away from oil, gas and coal. Mr. Lipton wrote a memo to his colleagues suggesting an investigation that would focus on the mining industries in several pivotal countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Race to the Future<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Players in the clean energy revolution are increasingly caught in a cycle of exploitation and greed over resources. At the center of it is the quest for a prized metal: cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n