China's rare earth curbs endanger $6.5 trillion of Western industry, IEA says

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-rare-earth-curbs-endanger-65-trillion-western-industry-iea-says-2026-07-16/

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itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 40d (2 replies)

Free market babyyyyyy

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 40d (1 reply)

HUMAN: I believe billions of talking apes acting primarily out of personal greed and desire will magically achieve a sustainable civilization before it destroys all life on Earth.

NARRATOR: it didn't.

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 40d

Ron Howard voice and all

Triumph@fedia.io · 3 pts · 40d

If the only metric you can measure it with is dollars, let it burn.

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 3 pts · 40d

Maybe Dubya should have done something about it.

Because that's the only time anything could have been done to prevent the current situation.