133 - The YIMBY Technocrat Problem & Mining The Future w/ Nick Bowlin

Listen to our Communist Manifesto reading featuring RM Brown by becoming a patron at patreon.com/leftreckoning Hello friends, we are joined this week by Nick Bowlin (@npbowlin) writer and correspondent at High Country News to talk about mining. Nick recently attended a major mining conference where attendees were salivating over the opportunities that green energy transitions mean for the mining industry. Read Nick's piece here: https://www.thedriftmag.com/a-good-prospect/ Also, Jacob Frey and allies stab rent control in the back: https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/what-happened-to-rent-control-in-minneapolis