“Alarms bells should be sounding in every western government about our need to develop locally sourced critical commodities like rare earths. This is a geopolitical as well as environmental imperative according to Drew Horn, CEO of Greenmet, a finance and development company focused on rare earths in the United States. Mr. Horn highlights the danger of US military currently relying on China for metals to build the new F-35 fighter jets and the paucity of controls on how these minerals are extracted.”
