Dr Pippa Malmgren
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69 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2013
last heard Dec 2014
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We forget that phosphates are essential to the production of food.
And like tantalum, it's a rare thing.
It's hard to make.
And to build a factory today that can make phosphates, you won't get any return on your capital for 15 years.
So right now, nobody's prepared to fund that.
So this is another example of things like mined assets.
We just take for granted that you pull stuff out of the ground when you need it.
What's the shortage of talent today to dig the stuff out of the ground?
For the last 25 years, if you had any math skills, you went into finance because that paid the most.
And I think this year is really interesting because it's the first year that the graduates of the Colorado School of Mines, which is America's best engineering school, will be paid more than Harvard Business School graduates today.
thus enticing young people with math skills to actually go back into the real economy, which is a great thing.
But it means we've also got a global shortage of engineers right now.
So again, you assume if you need something like tantalum, you just get it.
Yeah, well, guess what?
We don't have enough engineers and we probably won't for some years to come until we fix and redress this imbalance.
So tantalum, we really literally wouldn't have the global economy we have today without it.
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