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I thought the clearest option is to harvest it from nations with weak environmental lobbies, like we do today. Anyone up for some Amazon rain-forest?
by Quarrelsome 7y ago
I thought the clearest option is to harvest it from nations with weak environmental lobbies, like we do today.
Anyone up for some Amazon rain-forest?
- eesmith 7y agoWhich brings us back to the L.A. Times article: > Drilling opponents also acknowledge that the burden of producing lithium should not just fall on nations with less restrictive health and safety regulations and environmental safeguards. > "It's a tricky question," said Lisa Belenky, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. "We shouldn't export the sacrifices to Bolivia and Argentina, for example, which have massive lithium mines. ... We also think that Panamint Valley is not the right place for it."