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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

Yes - feel good about your electric car. Don’t worry about the 6 Year old mining the cobalt in the Congo for the battery.

What part of contaminating ground water and blowing up mountains to get lithium for batteries is good for the planet? And this is from The NY Times, not the most conservative source
Lithium Mining Projects May Not Be Green Friendly - The New York Times

Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle: what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, tablets, laptops and electric cars.
The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction | WIRED UK

In the case of cobalt, 60% of the world’s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where large numbers of unregulated mines use children as young as seven as miners.
Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener future | Green economy | The Guardian

That’s right I forgot oil never pollutes. What was I thinking. I forgot all the oil wells that spill millions or gallons of oil a year into the sea or by products going into the air. Silly me. There isn’t a perfect solution but solar power is getting closer. You need the batteries to store the Electricity as of right now is you produce it and what ever isn’t consumed is lost. Your point of a 6 year old working, it’s tragic but don’t wear anything as most are made by minors in 3rd world countries.