{"podcast":{"title":"Trending Globally: Politics and Policy","slug":"trending-globally-politics-and-policy-745507","podcast_index_feed_id":745507,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/trending-globally/","website_url":"https://trending-globally.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4ededf9e-0448-4ab3-87ad-7da81db83f1a/o36wuyO_YX_Guj-MjE1jvlsU.png","author":"The Watson School","episode_count":213,"summary":"An award-winning show exploring today's biggest global challenges with the world's leading experts, from the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T04:17:56.644018+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trending-globally-politics-and-policy-745507"},"episode":{"title":"The extraction industry powering the green transition (from the Rhodes Center Podcast)","slug":"the-extraction-industry-powering-the-green-transition-from-the-rhodes-center-podcast","published_at":"2026-04-30T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trending-globally-politics-and-policy-745507/the-extraction-industry-powering-the-green-transition-from-the-rhodes-center-podcast","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trending-globally-politics-and-policy-745507","url":"https://trending-globally.captivate.fm/episode/the-extraction-industry-powering-the-green-transition-from-the-rhodes-center-podcast","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ef527946-6b24-4e61-a791-37d8e42ff91b.mp3","summary":"Lithium is an essential ingredient of most modern electronics. It helps to power our phones, our laptops, and increasingly EVs and other key parts of the green transition. As Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist and author of the new book “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism,” explains, the story of lithium — how it's mined, how it’s refined, and how it makes its way around the world — isn’t just a business story. It's a story of geopolitics and power. On this episode (originally published on the Rhodes Center Podcast, another podcast from the Watson School), Watson political economist and Rhodes Center director Mark Blyth talks with Thea about the politics and economics of lithium extraction, how the race to electrify our energy supply is reshaping the global economy, and what it means for the future of our planet. Learn more about and purchase Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism Watch Mark and Thea’s discussion at the Watson School","meta_description":"Lithium is an essential ingredient of most modern electronics. It helps to power our phones, our laptops, and increasingly EVs and other key parts of the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2420,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/trending-globally-politics-and-policy-745507/episodes/the-extraction-industry-powering-the-green-transition-from-the-rhodes-center-podcast/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/trending-globally-politics-and-policy-745507/the-extraction-industry-powering-the-green-transition-from-the-rhodes-center-podcast.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}