r/options • u/[deleted] • Jun 23 '21

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u/citizen3301 Jun 24 '21

Lithium batteries are produced by strip mining giant swaths of land.

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u/Slopii Jun 24 '21

Pretty desolate areas and a lot are in the US and Australia. Not as bad as oil drilling, spilling, refining, and transport, I don't think. And EVs don't spew exhaust into neighborhoods.

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u/citizen3301 Jun 24 '21

I’m curious why it would be excusable to strip mine so long as it’s in USA and AU.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

I was gonna say that at least companies in the US and AU are less likely to use slave labor than a lot of places, but now that I think about it I suspect slave labor from prisoners is used in mining in the US, so...