The Social and Environmental Impacts of Critical Minerals Mining
2025, Documentary
Release Year: 2025
Country: United States
Director: Mira Rubio
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Our documentary explores the clean energy transitions often downplayed impacts on workers, the environment, and local communities. We specifically look at critical minerals–a fundamental resource for the clean energy transition. While we expose underreported challenges, we also offer a wide variety of solutions proposed by workers on the ground and experts alike. Through poignant and educational interviews with experts and activists, we present the ideal path toward a clean energy future that prioritizes human rights, labor protections, and sustainability.
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Biography of the director
Mira Rubio is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bay Area native. She discovered her passion for trade justice and activism through her internship at the California Trade Justice Coalition. There, Mira realized the tangible, positive changes that could be affected through policy and organizing work. She now works as Coordinator for the California Trade Justice Coalition, a position in which she was able to access the resources necessary to make this documentary. Two issues close to her heart are protecting workers’ rights and the climate.
