Chile is well-positioned for the energy transition because copper is critical for electrical infrastructure, and Chile controls a large share of global copper production due to the copper belt running down the western spine of the Americas from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

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Speaker

Tim Marshall

Evidence Quote

Chile if they can uh leverage their copper belt if you look at a a map of where copper is in the world right down the American uh America's East Coast starting all the way in Alaska coming down through California Mexico right down Central America Latin America all the way to the very tip of South America there is copper right down that Ridge and Chile is particularly well placed

Source

How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall (Part 1)Intelligence Squared
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:30:50 AM

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