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The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs (edition.cnn.com)

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Demand for metals like lithium and cobalt, as well as rare earth elements such as neodymium, is soaring as countries try to switch to electric cars and other clean technologies to slash carbon emissions.

"If Afghanistan has a few years of calm, allowing the development of its mineral resources, it could become one of the richest countries in the area within a decade," Said Mirzad of the US Geological Survey told Science magazine in 2010.

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[–] pononimous@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

You mistyped that. I think you meant, "The Taliban are sitting on one trillion dollars worth of minerals that I desperately want but am too stupid and lazy to work for." (Okay, you can ban me now - because you snowflake faggots always do so I no longer have to suffer the indignity and insult of seeing your shit-tier high-school losers page, anymore.