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White Gold: Elon Musk and the Race for Argentina’s Lithium

“Please, please, Mr Elon Musk: We need water. We need our land.”

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are big fans of Argentina’s populist President Javier Milei. Trump and Milei have publicly praised each other, with the US President offering support to his Argentine counterpart, while Musk and ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Milei initially wooed each other on social media, exchanging affectionate posts and sharing photos from their in-person meetings. At the heart of this bromance lie Argentina’s large reserves of lithium, the mineral known as ‘white gold’.

Lithium is powering the world’s energy transition, and multinational mining firms are descending on Argentina’s remote salt flats to supply companies like Tesla. But what about the people who have lived in the region for generations, who now fear that lithium mining is exhausting their water supply?

From South America’s Lithium Triangle to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., from the Indigenous Peoples of Catamarca to Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Javier Milei, White Gold tracks the human impact of the green transition.

Climate Chaos in the South

Climate Chaos in the South is a not about the science or reasons behind climate change but about the devastating impact that it is already having on many who live in the southern hemisphere.

Featuring interviews with the victims as well as the experts in Africa, Asia and South America, Climate Chaos in the South captures vividly the changes that climate change has wrought not just on the environment but on the lives and livelihoods of millions across three continents. Fertile land has been scorched and turned to desert while on the coasts increases in sea temperature has depleted fish stocks and a rising sea level has destroyed settlements. The huge rise in cyclones and other natural disasters continue to destroy homes on an unimaginable scale and the overall result is turning entire populations into climate refugees. While climate change once looked like a problem of the future, this film demonstrates with absolute clarity that it is a humanitarian catastrophe of the present.

Made with the support of Greenpeace, Oxfam, VOICE and numerous others, Climate Chaos in the South is the first comprehensive survey of how climate change is already devastating the lives of millions.