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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Mining for lithium is turning into a monstrous scourge environmentally. Yet the climate change advocates never mention it. Frankly, they provide misinformation regularly as well. Does that change what needs to happen moving forward? No. People are capable of filtering misinformation. And demand will always drive innovation.
Is it perfect? Of course not. Do things get manipulated in wrong directions some times? Of course. But whining that oil companies are holding back progress is completely missing the mark of what the problems are here
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What are the problems in your opinion? I’ve honestly never heard anyone argue that there is no environmental cost to mining lithium. But I do hear a lot of opponents of electric vehicles bring up that there is a huge environmental cost to it without ever mentioning how that cost compares in the long run to stopping it and continuing to rely on fossil fuels. Do you have any data which suggests there would be fewer net carbon emissions produced by abandoning lithium mining in favour of continuing to power vehicles with fossil fuels?