Christopher Pollon’s most recent book, Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places, is published by Greystone Books in partnership with The David Suzuki Institute.
 Pollon explores the legacy of the early transnational mining companies and their exploitative and environment destroying practices.
 He explains how, as the stakes grow ever higher, these practices may become even more destructive, as companies dig deeper, under the ocean and even into space to make vast amounts of money—while they still can.
 Canada’s top 10 mining companies generate revenue of more than 100 billion dollars each year and are major players globally.
 But what role will mining play in transitioning the world to clean energy and averting climate catastrophe?  Under business as usual, we are on a trajectory to create vast new sacrifice zones across the global south, all in the name of saving the planet.  How do we get the metals we need, while minimizing the harms to the environment and the people living closest to the resources?

Christopher Pollon is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist who reports on the politics of natural resources, focusing on mining, oceans, and energy. His work has appeared in dozens of publications, including National Geographic, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail. Pollon’s first book was The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam.