Dennett: Copper supply is the fundamental linchpin for humanity's future
Liz Dennett · The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall · Aug 26, 2026 · at 11:30
Liz Dennett, CEO of bio-mining startup Endolith, explains to Laura Pierpoint why she focused her company specifically on copper extraction.
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“Copper is the fundamental linchpin in how humans are able to exist in the next thousand years. If we cannot fix it now, that is the thing that I truly believe will cause mass impacts to society.”
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