Rare earth processing is not constrained by scarcity but by environmental damage from mining and processing, which is why the world outsourced it to China; now rare earths have become a national security bottleneck when geopolitical antagonism arises.
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“despite the name rare earths are in general not that rare. Uh it's that they have pretty big environmental impacts... the whole world was kind of like yeah China can handle that part. Uh which is great until it becomes the national security bottleneck”
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