When did Backlight Season 25 Episode 14 air?
Backlight Season 25 Episode 14 aired on December 22, 2025.
Backlight
Tegenlicht in Dutch or Backlight in English is a series of television documentaries by the VPRO, a Dutch public broadcasting organisation. Backlight "aims to grasp the quintessence of prominent trends and developments" in the practice of critical journalism, and tries to improve understanding of the intricate inner workings of our modern society.
Created by: Doke Romeijn, Marije Meerman
Season 25 · Episode 14
The dark site of the energy transition
Dec 22, 2025·26m
French journalist Guillaume Pitron warns of the shadow side of the energy transition and digitization. Rare metals are essential for the production of electric vehicles, fighter jets, wind turbines and solar panels, as well as for our smartphones, computers, tablets and other everyday devices. But most people actually know very little about the way they are extracted, or about the ecological and geopolitical cost of this. Pitron wrote the book The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies.
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How long is Backlight Season 25 Episode 14?
This episode runs for approximately 26 minutes.
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