Fast enough? Sure, if you like chasing red herrings. Speed is a factor, but it’s not the factor—it’s just one tile in a messy mosaic. The real question is whether we’re ready to mine these minerals at home, under real labor laws and environmental rules, or if we keep outsourcing the dirty work to places where neither life nor landscape has any meaningful price tag. Thus far, we’ve opted for the latter, but as globalism crumbles and those supply lines turn from assets into liabilities, the choice is coming home to roost. So pick your poison: cheap and dirty from faraway hellholes, or clean and local at a cost we can’t afford and voters won’t like. Either way, someone’s about to lose sleep—and probably an election.
