This is a good point. I certainly hope this history doesn’t repeat. However if we keep our current economic incentives, it probably will. In an ideal world we

This is a good point. I certainly hope this history doesn’t repeat. However if we keep our current economic incentives, it probably will. In an ideal world we would innovate with better chemistries which would render the need for lithium obsolete before we cause more damage. I know the technology exists (particularly for grid scale storage), but knowing humans, we will probably ruin more environments (and foreign economies) before such technologies will be meaningfully explored.