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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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I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember reading somewhere (?) that there are some Lithium deposits located in Alaska. If so, it could be mined using modern US mining technology and mining equipment - instead of "slave labor". As far as US citizens trying to save the world and eliminating harmful child labor practices in foreign countries - I believe that we need to stop buying Apple stock and Apple products and Teslas made and sold in China. I remember distinctly that Chinese workers had such bad lives that they were jumping to their deaths from the roofs of Chinese manufacturing facilities.
.....Personally, if I never bought a Chinese product again, I would be a happy camper. And I would be willing to pay much more to buy US products. And we would NOT HAVE the EXTRA POLLUTION of the ocean ships from China.
.........America became wealthy historically with slavery and cotton production and then by the industrial revolution because we have the MOST navigable rivers in the 1st world and electrical production from waterfalls.
..........We could return to complete TOP RANKING American innovation and have both the world's best software companies AND the best AUTOMATED factories with the best A.I.
...........We don't really NEED China and their STEALING our technology. We have created our own BEST enemy.
........We are in a position to be the greatest innovator of ANY new technology like innovative new batteries for non-polluting E-vehicles. Like new-generation, cutting-edge, and safe Nuclear power generation. I hear too many people say that the US can't do THIS or can't do THAT and , "we don't want to change and please don't make us or we will "hold our breath". It is like we create our own speed bumps.
......Years ago the US beat the Russians to the MOON......HOW, by everybody working together. Today it is "EVERYBODY pull apart". This business about new technology for E-vehicles is just a perfect example of the non-acceptance of new ideas and the speed bumps and NAYSAYING. US attitudes changed in about the 1980s with outsourcing and business schools acquiring the "best and brightest" students instead of the students going into the Scientific and Engineering fields.