Neat and interesting article

[Gdjjr]

The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret

The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the lithium gold rush threatens environmental damage on an industrial scale





You can't possibly please these people- I suspect the thorn in the authors side is that a farmer got rich-

 

[Votto]

But if you take away all of the Earth's lithium won't that cause the Earth to act crazy?

Think man!

 

[ReinyDays]

Luckily ... Lithium doesn't typically deposit anywhere but barren desert wastelands ... the Andean Altiplano for example ... no farming there ... not that EV's don't have a negative environmental effect ... we will still need to remove 90% of passenger vehicles from our roads ... walk or bicycle to work ...