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I understand that the demand for lithium grows but as someone who currently lives in Northern Nevada its sad to see more beautiful areas and critical habitat go
by s0rce 5y ago
I understand that the demand for lithium grows but as someone who currently lives in Northern Nevada its sad to see more beautiful areas and critical habitat going to be destroyed for new mines and mineral extraction.
- azinman2 5y agoThe reality is mines have to exist somewhere. The cost of them being abroad is more CO2 spent on getting materials shipped around the world, national security vulnerabilities, worse environmental laws, removing economic pie pieces, and a loss of potential jobs.
- seibelj 5y agoI look on a map of Nevada and it’s just vast, uninhabited space. Are the only sources of Nevada resources in actually lived areas, or is it something a handful of people see in any given year?
- s0rce 5y agoUninhabited by people maybe. Inhabited by plenty of endangered plants and animals who's habitats are getting smaller and smaller.
- seibelj 5y agoDo you have any source for resources in Nevada being inhabited by endangered animals, and said extraction of such resources will kill them? Otherwise it just sounds like generic negativity.
- s0rce 5y agohttps://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-02-04/us-eyes-rare-flower-habitat-nevada-lithium-mine https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-02-04/us-eye... https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/tiehms-buckwheat-moves-toward-endangered-species-act-protections-2021-10-01/ https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/tiehms... https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/tiny-sage-grouse-could-muscle-mining-industry-out-of-millions-of-acres/ https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/tiny-sage-grouse-could-mu...