Saleem Ali
Professor and Contributor at National Geographic
Mercurial Professor. @NatGeo E-explorer; team @wef @Yglvoices; Member of @unepirp; Faculty @UDelaware Alum @MIT @Yale @TuftsUniversity - 🇵🇰🇺🇸🇦🇺🇺🇳
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
The West African nation of Liberia stands out as a remarkable example of human resilience but also a somber warning regarding the fragility of development outcomes. As the first independent democracy on the African continent, the Liberian flag has one star but is otherwise reminiscent of the American Stars and Stripes banner.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
The Trump administration is seriously considering unilateral mining of polymetallic nodules from international waters and stockpiling them as a mineral reserve for strategic technologies. This would subvert more than three decades of international legal efforts to regulate extractive industries through the International Seabed Authority (ISA).
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
Amidst the current escalation of a global trade war, ecologist Jonathan Foley humorously noted on the social media platform Blue Sky that perhaps President Trump is secretly a “de-growther” and tanking the economy to help the environment! Jokes aside, a reduction in overall consumerism may well be an inadvertent silver lining to the economic cloud, similar to what happened during the COVID pandemic.
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
Given the uncertainty on Ukraine’s mineral potential as well as the prospects of a realistic deal for the United States, the Trump administration has turned its attention to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Unlike Ukraine, DRC has proven reserves of critical minerals from cobalt to copper to rare earths in massive quantities with functional large-scale mines as well as hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners. However, the country poses a dilemma for Trump as well.
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
Given the uncertainty on Ukraine’s mineral potential as well as the prospects of a realistic deal for the United States, the Trump administration has turned its attention to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Unlike Ukraine, DRC has proven reserves of critical minerals from cobalt to copper to rare earths in massive quantities with functional large-scale mines as well as hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners. However, the country poses a dilemma for Trump as well.
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