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Originally Posted by octothorp
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I stand corrected on a technicality, it's one of the images shown with a google search, and one of many similar due to a misuse of it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lith...=2533&bih=1289
But the snopes article is extremely misleading in itself, especially when it choose to show open pit oil sands as part of the article. That particular image shown is not of a lithium mine, but many open pit mines look like that, and they do include lithium mines. Open pit is a mining process.
https://www.mining.com/mineral-resou...eal-albemarle/
This is a real image of an open pit lithium mine. Snopes cant mislead here.
And cobalt mining is a large part of battery production as well, and they are looking like this as well
https://www.foreignbrief.com/africa/...trouble-congo/
https://www.zmescience.com/science/l...mining-098534/
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The risks of lithium mining
Lack of water in the region is not just the single potential problem with lithium mining. Toxic chemicals can leak from the evaporation pools to the water supply, such as hydrochloric acid, which is used in the processing of lithium – as well as waste products that can filter out of the brine.
In the United States, Canada, and Australia, lithium is usually extracted from the rock by using more traditional methods. Nevertheless, this still requires the use of chemicals in order to extract it in a useful form. In Nevada, the research found impacts on fish 150 miles downstream from a lithium processing operation, for example.
A report by Friends of the Earth argued that extracting lithium can affect the soil and causes air contamination.
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No matter how you try to spin it, lithium and cobalt mining is extremely destructive to the environment. And that's not even considering the exploitation of 3rd world countries, its population and child labour for the sake of battery production under the guise of promoting clean energy with electric cars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...m-ion-battery/
TYPICAL ELECTRIC CAR
10 to 20 pounds
People are often total hypocrites when it comes to industries to target.