Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For 70,000 years, humanity has treated Earth as a limitless storehouse of resources. But as we transition to a digital and "green" economy, our hunger for rare metals like cobalt, indium, and platinum has reached a breaking point. In the next 35 years alone, we will consume more metal than in all of human history combined. Is the answer to look upward?

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