How feasible is this?
The critical minerals initiative comes with a £50m fund to boost production at tungsten and lithium mines in Cornwall. Europe’s largest deposits of lithium are in Cornwall, and the EU singled out the county’s tungsten mine for potential financial support this summer.
Yes that should do it.
The strategy follows a six-week standoff between China and the EU over the supply of chips used in the car industry, underlining how Beijing is willing to use trade in critical materials for political purposes.
So the Dutch government attempts to seize a Chinese company at the behest of the US and it is China’s fault.
This is the “left wing” paper of the UK. At this point I am not sure who the target audience of the Guardian is. Blairites? Is there even that many of them around in the general population?
the Guardian’s job is to tell progressive liberals what they should think. They don’t have a “target audience.” They just monopolize the “center left” media space and dress up in semi palatable prose, the fascist demands of the capitalist class.
50 million pounds is enough to make the uk self sufficient?
Replace million with billion and you have a chance. Otherwise, no way.
No, sorry I was being facetious/sardonic against the Guardian.
When it comes to minerals mining and processing it requires significant investment from mining to refining; it requires investment in education and infrastructure and planning that requires looking at least 10-20 years into the future.
£50 million is a lot of money but it is nothing in the West because of how wasteful and inefficient any funding is used. For example, given their dogmatism with liberalism they have effectively ramped up the cost at every stage of production. It is why infrastructure projects take forever, are not completed on time, run over-budget and are all racked with quality control problems. Generally the west’s solution therefore for resource extraction is typically squeeze some country in the Global South and blame workers in the west for asking too high a wage for their rationale for this exploitation (western workers need higher wages to meet their inflated costs of living, and their quality of life is generally subsidised by the superexploitation of the Global South).
could you maybe expand on the economic inefficiencies of liberalism part or do you maybe have further readings i could look into?
thank you for the very interesting comment id like to learn more
Some minor oligarch is getting another yacht