• Nudding@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We will destroy the environment trying to produce enough lithium to give every person in North America a car, when we should have been switching over to free public transport.

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      10 months ago

      I agree we should have built better transportation infrastructure, but we will not destroy the environment by producing lithium batteries, especially with only two sites that collectively contain at least 200 times the current global use of lithium.

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            10 months ago

            Humanity objectively makes the planet a worse place. Since our first steps, we’ve driven 70% of all species to extinction. Every day we drive 150 more.

            If any other organism was this destructive in any environment we would work to eradicate it.

            Human exceptionalism is disgusting.

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          10 months ago
          1. If it’s too late anyway…

          2. Have you been to Arizona?

          3. 300 years of developed sustainable technology go a long way

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      10 months ago

      Not necessarily. It depends how it’s mined. Lilac is partnered up with Lake Resources and have a proven, patented, and tested tech of ion-exchange instead of hard rock mining.

      = no digging and recycled water use (no evaporation).

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      10 months ago

      The Salton Sea is already an environmental disaster. This just makes the best use of it.