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Fernando Acosta Barriga

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Fernando Acosta is a mining and industrial engineer, economist, and writer with a passion for exploring how the natural world—especially metals and minerals—has shaped human history, from deep geological time to the urgent demands of today’s energy transition.

Born in Chile, Fernando has spent the past two decades working at the crossroads of mining, finance, public policy, and sustainability. He currently serves as Director of Economics and Environment at the International Copper Study Group, supporting 26 countries and the European Union as they navigate the evolving dynamics of the global metals market. His writing seeks to make complex issues accessible to curious minds interested in geology, climate, and our shared future.

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Of course — I’d be happy to exchange ideas on such a fascinating subject. Your book project sounds incredibly ambitious and wide‑ranging, and I’m looking forward to learning more about it.

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The Collapse of the Bronze Age: A Mosaic of Interconnected Crises

Around 1200 BCE, the interconnected world of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East unravelled. Great civilisations that had flourished for centuries—Egypt, Mycenaean Greece, the Hittite Empire, Ugarit, Babylonia, and Assyria—entered a period of profound decline. Known as the Late Bronze Age Collapse, this turning point has puzzled historians for generations. Yet, as Professor Eric H. Cline argue Read more of this blog post »
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In The End of Everything, astrophysicist Katie Mack offers a masterful exploration of one of the most unsettling yet fascinating questions in cosmology: how the Universe itself might meet its end. With clarity, wit, and a rare narrative verve, she tr ...more
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Brad Fox’s The Bathysphere Book revisits William Beebe’s pioneering descents off Bermuda in the 1930s, when the deep sea was first glimpsed through the Bathysphere’s small windows. Without photographs, Beebe relied on urgent telephone descriptions th ...more
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Caroline Fraser’s Murderland offers a gripping blend of true crime and environmental history. She traces the rise of 1970s serial killers against a backdrop of industrial pollution, suggesting that toxic air and corporate negligence may have helped s ...more
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