Oil Wars to Mineral Wars: How the Global Energy Transition Is Rewriting Power

Описание: For decades, global power was built around oil—who controlled it, who transported it, and who could interrupt the flow. The assumption now is that the green transition will dissolve those old energy battles.

It won’t.

In this episode of The Glopole, we unpack why the shift to clean energy is not ending geopolitics, but restructuring it. Power is moving away from oil fields and pipelines toward critical minerals, processing hubs, supply chains, and rules—and the consequences are deeper, quieter, and longer-lasting.

We explore:

Why mineral politics are fundamentally different from oil politics

How processing, not mining, has become the real chokepoint

Why China’s advantage is structural, not conspiratorial

How the green transition risks creating new forms of dependency

Why energy security now means securing inputs, not territory

This is not a story of collapse or conspiracy. It is a story of systems—how value, leverage, and vulnerability are redistributed in a world trying to decarbonise without de-politicising.

If you’ve been told the green transition will calm global tensions, this episode explains why the opposite is more likely.

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