Yeah that’s my sentiment as well. I don’t get why everyone is heaping praise on McCarthy for this. It was a no-brainer in the first place.
I can rub my belly and pat my head at the same time and vice versa.
Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc
By 2050 electric vehiclescould require huge amounts of lithiumfor their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining
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%.
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Ain’t gonna be Newsom. Gonna be Buttigieg. Screen cap this.
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