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Originally Posted by Scott R
It's a lot worse than we know. One of my past jobs with Siemens was modernizing power solutions in the third world mining meccas. Lithium mining is unbelievably bad. Worked by slaves, and killing millions of acres of land so we can drive Volts.
If you saw the conditions at Lithium mines you would cry for the people and the environment. This is just some of the aftermath; your average South American Lithium miner lives to the ripe age of 20.
This is just wrong way to go on so many levels.
It's really just slavery and the wholesale destruction of the planet so that Leonardino Decaprio can feel good when he drives his Tesla. |
TOTAL BS.
That's a picture of a diamond mine for starters. Most lithium comes from brine, not hard rock mining. Diamond and gold mining arefar more destructive that the extraction of lithium from brine. I won't waste time addressing any of the other nonsense in your post.
Mirny Diamond Mine | Atlas Obscura