Climate

The American offset model lets the United States outsource the visible costs of mining, emissions, standards, and consumption while preserving a cleaner story about itself. This episode connects copper, carbon, supply chains, and geopolitical risk.

America needs copper and strategic minerals for energy, defense, and industrial resilience, but its own permitting and political choices often block the mines it says it needs. This episode examines the contradiction between clean-energy ambition, resource dependence, and policy reality.