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).
As they throw the plastic encasing their individually-wrapped everything into the nearest landfill...