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In reply to the discussion: "Its Time To Shut Up About Bob [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)21. As long as we don't mind fucking over indigenous South Americans
https://www.dw.com/en/lithium-extraction-for-e-mobility-robs-chilean-communities-of-water/a-51844854
Sorry Hugo, but that's the price you are going to have to bear so that we can have EV's.
Maybe, and this is just spitballing here, every person doesn't really need a one-ton personal carcass-carrier to haul their asses around car-centric-designed suburban sprawl.
A great thought experiment I read recently involved a world in which everyone decided to walk around on stilts. They did this for generations, so all of their houses had doors very high up. Inside, the houses have high ceilings and cabinets 10 feet off of the floors, and so on.
Then, someone said, "how about we quit using stilts," and people were like, "but how will we use our houses and office buildings if we don't use stilts?" We have resource waste baked-in to our lifestyles, and we don't even question it.
At first glance, Chile's Atacama Desert looks a barren, inhospitable place. Yet indigenous people and animals have long thrived there. Now locals says they're having to compete with the lithium industry for the desert's limited water resources.
Coyo is one of dozens of Likan-antai communities that live in the desert's small oases. The community takes turns to tap the San Pedro River water and after waiting for two weeks, today, Hugo Diaz can finally water his crops.
"Before the mining companies arrived here, there was a lot of water," Diaz told DW. "But mining has consumed the groundwater, the companies even take water from the river, so we farmers don't get the water we need anymore."
Sorry Hugo, but that's the price you are going to have to bear so that we can have EV's.
Maybe, and this is just spitballing here, every person doesn't really need a one-ton personal carcass-carrier to haul their asses around car-centric-designed suburban sprawl.
A great thought experiment I read recently involved a world in which everyone decided to walk around on stilts. They did this for generations, so all of their houses had doors very high up. Inside, the houses have high ceilings and cabinets 10 feet off of the floors, and so on.
Then, someone said, "how about we quit using stilts," and people were like, "but how will we use our houses and office buildings if we don't use stilts?" We have resource waste baked-in to our lifestyles, and we don't even question it.
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And these disgusting corporate welfare payments continue still, while the Fossil Fuels ...
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Oct 2021
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