Truth in advertising would require electric cars to be shown surrounded by the Pig Pen-esque dirty cloud that they kick up.
"Our children are dying like dogs," a Congolese mother whose son and cousin died while working in the Congo's cobalt mines, says the Deseret News.
About 20% of cobalt supplied from the DRC comes from artisanal mines where child labour and human rights abuses have been reported.
Up to 40,000 children work in extremely dangerous conditions in the mines for meagre income, according to UNICEF. And in Chile, lithium mining uses nearly 65% of the water in the country's Salar de Atacama region, one of the driest desert areas in the world, to pump out brines from drilled wells.
If their use were limited to just those items, if there weren't such a fevered campaign to replace conventional vehicles with electric cars, and to build batteries to store wind and solar power to make them more reliable, the social and environmental problems from overseas mining overseas would not be as profound.
The hypocrisy of the green movement emits a bad odor.
The political left hates mining, but apparently only in the U.S., and maybe Canada.
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/05/26/those-dirty-electric-vehicles-and-green-hypocrisy/
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