The Laws of Physics dictate that Li is indeed a dangerous element.
Na and Cl too.
Albermare Sound? The outer banks of North Carolina?
NIMBY will be the death of modern societies with woke who are afraid of risk mitigation and responsible extraction. Lead production stopped on the US without a backup plan. No indigenous oil or rare mining in the US to protect American industry and livelihoods from resource scarcity and economic blackmail. Lithium production will end on the EU, dead. Mining will be going on in the UKR region if the Russians permanently take the Donbas as there are huge deposits of rare metals for battery making there. Something else theRussian will exploit and sell to the EU while the EU will back door the sale while saying all is well to their own woke nimrods.
On a global scale, The Chinese already poisoned industrial areas of Their country making car batteries and solar panels so fufu, pajama people in the West can keep there hands and minds clean, living in a rose-colored, ecofriendly universe while protesting the cause of the week. (PCU the movie does an awesome job with the cause-heads).
Many years ago there was a quiet EU resolution passed enacting RoHs guidelines.
I noticed many years later when I could no longer melt solder with my traditional Iron, and got pissed when fixing stuff got so much more difficult.
I spent a few days trying to figure out where it originally came from with no success.
(I concluded it was a commie plot)
anyway the US Govt was forced to create a second Manhattan project to mitigate the effects of this EU directive
https://hlinstruments.com/RoHS_articles/The%20Pb-free%20Manhattan%20project.pdf
Life is very tough and very confusing when you are a nihilist. It is very hard to believe in anything. They are kind of like some churches and not allowed to do anything.
What was the name of the zero population growth bunch that had a motto like, “Eat worms and die young” or something like that?
Rule #1 of the econazis and the left...
Support a solution to a problem only as long as it doesn’t solve the problem. The moment that solution shows promise of solving the problem then they want to shut it down.
It is a hazardous substance.
Shut down lithium production while requiring transition to electric cars.
Why wait?
They're overdue to move it out of the EU.