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Originally Posted by Firebot

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/



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.

Yeah, it's ugly but who gives a fata? It's not like I'm going to build a house overlooking that pit and let my kids swim at the bottom of the hole. Come to my shop in the foothills industrial park - it's ugly, too, and we use weird chemicals and products here as well. Anything you own that has been manufactured sources raw materials from ugly places and creates waste. Existing creates waste and damages natural ecosystems.

So we fata up like 20 square kilometers out of the 510 square kilometers of land there is on earth to give increase the quality of life for millions of people. BFD. This is barely a scratch in the surface of the planet.