NEW YORK: The warnings keep getting louder: the world is hurtling toward a desperate shortage of copper.
Humans are more dependent than ever on a metal we’ve used for 10,000 years; new deposits are drying up, and the type of breakthrough technologies that transformed other commodities have failed to materialise for copper.
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