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>But more importantly, there are no real geopolitical or environmental problems with lithium. Evo Morales might disagree on the first point: https://www.nytim

• ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  Or maybe he's smart enough to know that "I got coup'd because I was going to nationalise some industry" was too much of a "dog bites man" story, and that "I got coup'd for EVs" was going to be more viral and therefore draw more global attention. Just like we talk about "Banana Republics" rather than "Worker Mistreatment Republics". Maybe it's the people who don't want to pay the market price for things and respect environmental and worker regulations when they can topple democratic governments for less cash that are the real "geopolitical problem" not the lithium and bananas? I mean what could we possibly do if a country with Lithium jacked the price up? Buy it from all the other countries with the broadly distributed Lithium deposits? Mine it in our own countries which also have Lithium? Then we're back in the problem situation of having to treat the workers like human beings and pay standard market rates.