Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found::Find could point to new ways to prospect for material in high demand for batteries.
Cute, they seem to completely gloss over the fact that the review of the site’s environmental impact was rushed, the fact that it’ll likely be disrupting several native habitats, including at least one species that doesn’t exist elsewhere, the fact that it’ll apparently be destroying places that are important to the culture and religions of the surrounding tribal groups (apparently thacker pass is sacred as a massacre against native Americans was committed there, and that they were not consulted before it was approved like they were supposed to), or any of the other issues with it.
We need lithium, but considering how bad of a reputation resource extraction companies have, could we not gloss over the fact that, once again, a mining company is about to bulldoze a lot of land with ecological, cultural, and religious importance in the name of green capitalism? At least force them to mine underground instead of gouging yet another scar into the face of the earth with an open pit mine.
When has any of that ever stopped them?
As an American, I’d prefer we mine our own rather than externalize our sins to some other region of the world.
Obviously I wish we didn’t tear anything up, and also wish other countries weren’t turn up either, but if we want batteries we should be responsible
Well fuck. Is America about to invade America? I don’t know how much more freedom I can take.
My understanding is the site is in Nevada, so we’ve already nuked the bastards back to the stone age.
Arkansas sends record number of children into Volcano
Breaking previous record held by a small island in the South Pacific
US needs freedom, let’s import democracy to US.
