What’s your evidence for open pit lithium mines being “disastrous”?
You know what....there is no evidence. EVs and the mining needed to make the batteries, all of which is done with fossil fueled vehicles do absolutely ZERO to the environment, just like the windmills don’t do anything. The solar farms don’t do anything. The waste from all of this is easily gotten rid of or recycled or repurposed.
Absolutely everything about EVs and renewable energy is just peachy. Everything.
I guess those giant pools are just absolutely perfect for fish and you and your family to take a vacation to.
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/the-environmental-impact-of-lithium-batteries/ ... In Chile, the landscape is marred by mountains of discarded salt and canals filled with contaminated water with an unnatural blue hue. According to Guillermo Gonzalez, a lithium battery expert from the University of Chile, “This isn’t a green solution – it’s not a solution at all.”
Everything is just peachy, peachy, peachy.