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  • 7/24/2025
In Chile, the documentary The Lithium Fever denounces the impact of mining in the country and questions the energy transition during its premiere in Santiago. teleSUR

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00:00In Chile, the documentary The Lithium Fever denounces the impact of mining in the country
00:05and questions the energy transition during its premiere in Santiago.
00:09Recorded at the end of 2024, the film collects testimonies from the Kola communities affected
00:16by mining in the Atacama and Maricunga salt flats in the north of the country.
00:21The production exposes the serious social, environmental and cultural effects of the
00:26extraction of this mineral promoted as key to the so-called global energy transition.
00:32Communities demand justice while official discourse speaks of green progress.
00:37And indigenous peoples and workers denounce that lithium extractivism
00:42only reproduces inequality and destruction.

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