The Green Revolution’s Dirty Secret

Rare Earths, Geopolitics, and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (An Update)

This article serves as an update to my previous piece, The Russia-Ukraine Conflict May Represent the First Resource War of the Green Revolution. When I first wrote that article months ago, I suggested that rare earth elements (REEs) played a critical but overlooked role in the motivations behind the war. Now, with new developments in peace talks and add…