• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Too bad the lithium battery industry is no better. Those places are child labor slave mines and the environmental damage is astronomical…

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      1 year ago

      You’re probably thinking of cobalt or perhaps hard rock lithium mines. Most lithium is just pumped out of the ground as brines, just like oil.