Why Lithium Mining For EV Batteries Should Be Our ‘Absolute Last Resort’

“We can’t mine our way out of the climate crisis,” one activist said.

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@graue That was a sobering read that casts some serious questions upon the EV industry. Not so much for the climate change benefits, but the damaging processes. It just seems like we’re damned both ways, and that we’ve consumed and urban planned—poorly—ourselves into a corner. I would love to go car free; city centres like Oslo and Amsterdam should be lessons for the rest of the world how to do things right.