The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth by Nicolas Niarchos.
The New Yorker journalist plots the rise of lithium-ion batteries from their invention in the 1970s to the vast, geopolitically vital resource they are now.
The story he tells is of “governments and consumers in wealthier countries pursuing supposedly green ambitions from the costs unfolding someplace else,” the Financial Times says. Buy The Elements of Power from your local bookstore.