It's compartmentalized environmentalism. The child slaves mining the rare earth needed for EVs in African strip mines are intentionally left out by the 'carbon footprint calculations' and ESG posturing of the anointed. It's even blinder than business-as-usual, because everyone's eating the peeling lead-based green paint chips peeling off the greenwashed business model with gusto. It's sweet like candy and nobody wants to say that these new practices are at least equally destructive compared to traditional technologies.
All the Anointed want is a dream of a clean green grid, paid for by taxing the existing infrastructure past the point of collapse, so they can ride around in their carbon-neutral EVs which will be powered by wind, sun, and unicorn farts-- while the world spins ever closer to a Great Collapse.
I think I know how the rank and file Romans felt as their world teetered towards the trade collapse that preceded the Dark Ages.
And every video I've seen of Lithium mines is literally children just digging out of the ground with damn near their bare hands. Like that's the dirty secret behind all these EV batteries.
Well lithium is strip mined, so no it's not better.
I love how people selectively ignore how some of these "green" things are actually made. And also what happens to them when they expire.
It's compartmentalized environmentalism. The child slaves mining the rare earth needed for EVs in African strip mines are intentionally left out by the 'carbon footprint calculations' and ESG posturing of the anointed. It's even blinder than business-as-usual, because everyone's eating the peeling lead-based green paint chips peeling off the greenwashed business model with gusto. It's sweet like candy and nobody wants to say that these new practices are at least equally destructive compared to traditional technologies.
All the Anointed want is a dream of a clean green grid, paid for by taxing the existing infrastructure past the point of collapse, so they can ride around in their carbon-neutral EVs which will be powered by wind, sun, and unicorn farts-- while the world spins ever closer to a Great Collapse.
I think I know how the rank and file Romans felt as their world teetered towards the trade collapse that preceded the Dark Ages.
Lithium mining also requires ridiculous amounts of water.
And every video I've seen of Lithium mines is literally children just digging out of the ground with damn near their bare hands. Like that's the dirty secret behind all these EV batteries.
We had a lithium battery factory go up in flames here last week. big fire hazards