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From an environmental perspective, petrochemical industrial activity is certainly not trivially comparable “by weight” to the industrial activity for using lith
by guscost 6y ago
From an environmental perspective, petrochemical industrial activity is certainly not trivially comparable “by weight” to the industrial activity for using lithium, cobalt, neodymium, etc.
That said, I still like this comparison because it is simple, and all that stuff itself needs to be transported all over the world, which makes a big difference.
- hfsp 6y agoThere are enormous environmental and human rare earth mining costs to assumedly "clean" and "green" electric cars, and solar panels. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-....
- ravi-delia 6y agoI feel like that's only surprising with a very naive worldview that everything is either 'good' or 'bad' in all things. It's like people who act all shocked and betrayed that electric cars use grid power.