Todd Royal is the co-author (with Ron Stein) of the book, Clean Energy Exploitations: Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses that Support “Clean” Energy. In this episode, Todd explains how China is “weaponizing” commodities like cobalt, polysilicon, and rare earth elements, why hydrocarbons are going to be needed for decades to come, and how ESG rules on investments are based on vague definitions of what is “good.”