Africa: The Race to Mine Critical Minerals for AI and Clean Energy Is Creating ‘Sacrifice Zones’ That Harm Water and Health of World’s Poor

[The Conversation Africa] There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies - everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, electric vehicles and defense systems - depend on critical minerals. But many of the communities where those minerals are mined end up with polluted water and poorer health because of the mining.

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