They’ll just have to send Third World children deeper into the mines to get the materials out. It’s worth it to those who desire to virtue whine to others about how they’re saving Mother Earth by driving an electric car that gets recharged with energy from nuclear and coal-powered plants.
Not necessarily suggesting this, but if it were conservatives pushing EV’s the Lefties would be pushing to include lithium as a “conflict mineral” a la “blood diamonds” and several “strategic materials”. Businesses dealing in Lithium would immediately be drowned in paperwork to ‘certify’ that their lithium did not come from a listed region or country.