You should understand that there is a lot of astroturfing going on now with comments starting that EVs and batteries are terribly toxic and will be an huge envi

You should understand that there is a lot of astroturfing going on now with comments starting that EVs and batteries are terribly toxic and will be an huge environmental disaster. Those people never seem to acknowledge the counter arguments. Batteries use only a small amount of lithium (8-16kg per vehicle). There is some toxicity to lithium mining but it is not a particularly toxic element and the effects are localized. Once produced, the lithium in batteries can be recycled efficiently. We are not going to need millions of lithium mines. The amount needed is a couple of orders of magnitude less than the amount of drilling sites needed for the toxic oil that we are current extracting and burning and that cannot be recycled in any meaningful way. We are concerned for the environment and need to make trade offs to get the best outcome for the environment. So far, the small amount of lithium mines seems like a good trade off against large numbers of oil drills.