You can challenge the Nimby on raw materials: by digging. Urso speaks

How to produce raw materials at home, as requested by the EU? “We need to consider the entire production process,” the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy told Il Foglio

We could call her the resurgence of mining or, if that sounds better, the rush for critical raw materials. The Europe of the earth is back, no longer the Europe of coal and iron, but of rare minerals. Italy must and can participate starting from a position that is anything but secondary. It is a key step in the energy transition, which requires political decisions, financial resources, industrial organization, innovation and consensus because reconversion has both social and environmental costs and repercussions. For those who do not follow European events carefully, this is new, but Adolfo Urso has already put the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy to work. There is no time to waste, 2030 is near and “a green future is not a dance or a midsummer dream. Everything holds together – he explains to Il Foglio – It is not enough to look at what comes out of a chimney or the exhaust of a car, it is necessary to consider the entire production process”. “The electric world does not start with the sun and the wind, but with the earth, with the fundamental materials for building batteries and for storing the energy produced with the entire range of renewable sources (including nuclear)”.