{"product_id":"extracting-the-future-mark-goodale-9780520402799","title":"Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark Goodale traces the development of Bolivia's closely guarded lithium project through the perspectives of a wide array of people and institutions, including workers at the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat; the state lithium company in La Paz; Latin America's first electric vehicle company; and energy entrepreneurs in Bolivia, the United States, and Germany. He points to a fundamental contradiction: a so-called green energy transition dependent on the ever-greater extraction of yet another nonrenewable resource. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But without access to Bolivia's lithium, and at megaindustrial scales that far outstrip current production, there won't be sufficient lithium supply to make the batteries needed for a truly global EV revolution. \u003ci\u003eExtracting the Future\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the lithium economy is deeply embedded in a global capitalist system that continues to rely on resource extraction, unsustainable economic growth, and geopolitical violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Goodale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520402790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520402799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mark Goodale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962018517247,"sku":"9780520402799","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_73cafb04-6d49-4165-8adb-8e1fbdc9b3ae.jpg?v=1750649068","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/extracting-the-future-mark-goodale-9780520402799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}