Modern technologies and conflict
Jakub Drmola
Energy, climate, resources

Climate change
-Extinction is the norm
-99% of all spieces
-Mostly due to climate change
-Mostly triggered by volcanism
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-Planet will survive, life will survive, humans will survive too
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-Geopolitical consequences
-Lack of water and food
-Poor adaptation
-Migration and conflicts
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-All countries impacted
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-“lifeboat” countries?

Climate change and conflicts
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•Social conflict
•Organized violence
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Energy sources
-Burning buried sunshine       (80%)
-Burning fresh sunshine      (10%)
-Heat from sunshine              (7%)
-geothermal + nuclear energy (3%)
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-Issue of energy storage
-Energy consumption is growing and will continue to grow
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-Nuclear fusion?
-ITER, 2030?, $6-65 bil

Coltan
-Mined for tantalum and niobium, used in electronics (condensators)
-All phones, computers, TVs…
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-circa 60% from DRC
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPIB17PE2vM
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-“resource curse”
-(re)source of conflict
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-Slavery and civil war
-Environmental impact

REE mining
•90% of global production from mines in Baotou, northern China
•cerium, neodymium, yttrium, terbium, scandium, lanthan, dysprosium, …
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•Massive ecological impact
•Geopolitical tool
•Other deposits: DPRK and Afghanistan
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Geo-engineering
-artificial and intentional climate change
-+ unintentional slowing of climate change
-method to buy some time
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-SRM - Solar Radiation Management
-increasing albedo (reflectivity)
-aerosol dispersion, construction changes
-risk of unilateral actions and dependence
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-also “carbon capture” technology
-artificial/organic