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Originally Posted by blueash
I completely agree with you that lithium mining is fraught with inhumane conditions and needs reformation. Hopefully enough light gets shown on this abuse that international pressure pushes reforms in those countries and those corporations that allow it to continue.
Similar conditions existed in coal mining here and elsewhere for generations, and still exist in clothing manufacturing, other mining, and very likely in the production of the cell phone I use. Sadly we as consumers are certainly complicit in our inadvertent or even advertent worker and environmental abuses. And worker abuses do not only occur in the third world, only differing in the severity and breadth of those abuses. The horror stories from Qatar building the World Cup facilities is a good example of how this goes on even in a rich country.
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But keep doing it for now to save the planet? Based on who runs those operations (local warlords doing the bidding of the CCP) is there any reasonable hope for reform? I would argue a strong "no" as long as the elite attending Davos get their precious "climate change" agenda to move forward.
EV - A solution in search of a problem that creates problems of its own. In this case, maimed and dead children.