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Originally Posted by Firebot
Batteries don't just magically appear out of thin air, they are made of metals that are toxic to the environment, and uses extreme amounts of water and a destructive process to mine / extract
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I've fed up with this oft repeated line. Prove to me mining the materials for battery production is worse than everything else we mine to use in all manner industries. Spoiler: you can't because mining in general is bad for the planet, cherry picking battery production is just plain stupid and screams some sort of agenda, or maybe ignorance or stupidity I don't know which.
Either way it's a crock of ####, you want to talk about dirty look into the exploration, extraction, refinement, transport and ultimately burning of oil. It's really bad. And I'm not anti oil AT ALL in fact the opposite I believe we must use it as a means to transition to clean energy. But let's stop with this utter nonsense that lithium cobalt nickel whatever batteries are the boogie man and way worse than anything else we produce.
BTW solar panels use an extreme amount of water to produce.