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The Electric Vehicle crowd are struggling to deflect attention from the disastrous environmental impacts caused by their shiny new Teslas. Wedded to their own virtuous piety, EV owners evidently ignore the hypocrisy that sits at the heart of every EV: a lithium-ion battery.

The lithium-ion battery, whether it’s used to power an all-EV or as a standalone store for electrons lovingly harvested from mother nature, is a wealth of rare earths and scarce minerals, the provenance of which can only be described as troublesome...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/cobalt-mining-in-the-congo-green-energy/100802588