Casey A. Williams

Casey A. Williams is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo College, Institute for Advanced Study, at the University of Tokyo. His writing on climate, energy and labor has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

A worker holds lithium hydroxide at the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM) chemical plant in Antofagasta, Chile, 2024.

The Scramble for Lithium The Scramble for Lithium

Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a critical mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism.

Feb 23, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Casey A. Williams

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