A closer look
Saving the planet is going to bankrupt us all first, thanks to the skyrocketing cost of battery dirt. As governments mandate a rapid global transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy grids, the demand for critical transition metals like copper, lithium, and cobalt has wildly outpaced supply. This massive structural deficit is triggering a phenomenon known as greenflation, where the very act of trying to decarbonize the economy drives up the cost of manufacturing everything. We are essentially racing toward a clean-energy utopia while actively inflating the price of the foundational materials needed to build it.
