The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment
In neighboring Indonesia, nickel extraction is causing environmental and social devastation.
Indonesia’s islands are some of the most biodiverse areas of the world.
They are filled with dense jungle and teeming with wildlife.
They’re also home to some of the planet’s largest reserves of nickel —
— a key component in many electric vehicle batteries.
Muhammad Fadli for Rest of World
Massive industrial plants work to extract and process the metal.
Residents of surrounding villages complain of health issues, polluted water, and destroyed land.
https://restofworld.org/2022/indonesia-china-ev-nickel/