Where To Stream Four Corners Season 2025 Episode 32
Race to the Bottom
- Aired September 8, 2025
- 46 Min
The race is on to find the minerals we need to enable the world's transition to clean energy, and vast reserves of those minerals lie untouched at the bottom of the Pacific. But, while mining them could fuel our green future, scientists warn it risks catastrophic damage to our oceans. Enter Australian entrepreneur Gerard Barron, the founder and CEO of The Metals Company. He wants to extract potato-sized balls called polymetallic nodules from the seabed and believes they could be worth trillions...