The UK Guardian is one of the leading climahysteric mainstream news outlets, and unabashedly admit that they are biased. They were also leaders in pushing people to be forced into EVs. But, now?
Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc
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.
It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.
But ambitious policies investing in mass transit, walkable towns and cities, and robust battery recycling in the US would slash the amount of extra lithium required in 2050 by more than 90%.
In fact, this first-of-its-kind modeling shows it is possible to have more transport options for Americans that are safer, healthier and less segregated, and less harmful mining while making rapid progress to zero emissions.
In other words, EVs are not acceptable for the peasants, who should be forced out of their privately owned vehicles and into mass transit, bikes, and walking. I will admit, though, some cities do need to cut down on their private vehicles. NYC is a mess. It used to be OK to drive in for the day, not anymore. Anyhow, even those who do not live in big cities need to have their private vehicles restricted, per the climate cult.
The global demand for lithium, also known as white gold, is predicted to rise over 40 times by 2040, driven predominantly by the shift to electric vehicles. Grassroots protests and lawsuits against lithium mining are on the rise from the US and Chile to Serbia and Tibet amid rising concern about the socio-environmental impacts and increasingly tense geopolitics around supply.
The climate cult creates the problem by getting government to force people into EVs they can barely afford, then says EVs are bad. Go figure
The US’s affinity for cars, especially big ones, and sprawling cities and suburbs where driving to work, school and shop is often the only option, gives its transition to electric vehicles major global significance.
Tough. Mind your own business. You do you, the rest of us will live our lives. Also, yes, all that lithium mining does create an actual environmental mess. Thanks, Warmists.
And it’s not as if coal, oil and gas have any environmental impacts.
Congratulations for missing the point completely. Again. For the 25 thousandth time.
“and it not as if coal, oil and gas have any environmental impacts.”
That’s correct. But they aren’t claiming to be earth-friendly, clean technology.
Fearmongering
Doom and gloom
Battery technology improves every week
50% of all lithium does not come from mining but is extracted from salt brines
The Chevy Bolt EV costs about 50% less than the cost of the average new car sold in the USA
The Tesla Mod 3 costs 44000$ 20% less than the cost of the average new car sold in the USA
“Peasants” who can afford to buy a new car CAN afford an EV
Lithium is more common than lead.thete is a lot of it on our planet. However, it can and will be replaced by other metals in many cases.
Dear H
You make things up.
The Chevy Bolt is around $35,000 vs the average price of all new car sales is $40,000.
That is just 12.5% less for a car that has limited options compared to ICE which also can run with no reduction in performance when the temp is 20 below.
The Telsa Mod 3 is $46,990 to $62,990.
Quit telling falsehoods. We all have serach engines.
Dear H
You make things up.
The Chevy Bolt is around $35,000 vs the average price of all new car sales is $40,000.
That is just 12.5% less for a car that has limited options compared to ICE which also can run with no reduction in performance when the temp is 20 below.
The Telsa Mod 3 is $46,990 to $62,990.
Quit telling falsehoods. We all have serach engines.
Everything has environmental impacts, even you. But unlike you coal, oil and gas are worth it. They are cheap, reliable and have proven their value. As an added plus they don’t require armies of beleaguered, downtrodden black child slave labor to obtain. Although to a democrat like you that may be a plus being all into slavery and such.
Horses were cheap, reliable and had proven THEIR value. Yet they were replaced!
Fireplaces were cheap, reliable and had proven THEIR value, as well. But here we are having replaced them with furnaces and heat pumps! Same with candles and torches! Replaced!
It would be amusing if it weren’t so disgusting, when white nationalists pretend to be concerned about black kids somewhere.
If you are actually even remotely concerned about child labor you should read this.
Children are abused in many international industries including farming, sex work, textiles, mining, drilling, as laborers, food service, petty crime, domestics, timbering, fishing…
It’s estimated that some 1 million children work mining coal, gold, gems, sand, clay, stone etc. The worst abuses occur in so-called “artisanal” or small-scale operations.
The answer is unlikely to be stopping all consumption of goods and activities but rather to work to stop child abuse. There is a reason that American corporations have outsourced so much labor to Asia – to reduce labor costs and increase profits for owners and shareholders. At least part of the reduced cost comes from other nations not following US worker safety and environmental regulations. Not many Indian and Chinese children are unionized! By definition, slave labor is less costly than American labor.
International corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Shell, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Exxon, GM are buying raw materials (cobalt, lithium) that get converted into “value-added” products. Is it asking too much that they monitor their raw material inputs (most have initiatives in place to do that)?
Much of what makes America so great are our people – people who care about others, including abused children in other lands.
Thank you for your concern of others.
i’ve read more than one article saying there isn’t enough lithium and other needed elements to make enough batteries let alone replace all the batteries when they die…either way, an ev isn’t carbon neutral until you put 60k miles on it…they won’t shit for resale, no one wants to buy a used car to turn around and spend $20k for new batteries…ev’s are crap
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