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Ironically the very oil and gas industries that funded this FUD via the Manhattan Institute are themselves a perfect example of how extractive industry can scal
by jhp123 4y ago
Ironically the very oil and gas industries that funded this FUD via the Manhattan Institute are themselves a perfect example of how extractive industry can scale up far beyond the kind of naive extrapolations that gave us the "peak oil" idea.
- yawaramin 4y agoI suppose that the Climate and Community Project and University of California, Davis are also being funded by the Manhattan Institute to spread FUD? > The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds. That's the first paragraph of https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-... (that's 2023-01-24, btw). The entire article is worth reading to get a high-level overview of the actual real-world impact the lithium mining will have over the next couple of decades if we keep rushing headlong into a path where we believe electric cars will just magically solve everything. I know in this cynical age no one wants to believe anything, but really–have we not seen enough ecologies destroyed by mining to understand that this is real?