2026-02-25
36 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Decarbonization is triggering a new great power race.
As demand for green technologies and sustainable power sources grows,
Washington and Beijing are battling for control of cobalt,
lithium, copper, and nickel,
the critical metals that will determine who lands on top of the global energy transition.
In this episode,
Nicholas Nyarkos joins host Atusa Araxia-Abrahamian to discuss the elements of power,
a sweeping investigation into the wall for the global supply of battery metals.
Let's join our host, Atusa, now, Woodmore.
Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Atusa Araxia-Abrahamian.
Our guest today is Nicholas Nyarkos.
Nicholas began his journalistic career as a fact-checker at The New Yorker,
for which he is now a contributing writer.
He is also the editor of Now Voyager Magazine,
a magazine of international long-form reporting that's coming out later this year.
Nick has reported extensively from Africa,
from the Middle East, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.