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Tupcek t1_irv3vvv wrote

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permanent harm to the area? All I found is that main concern in lithium mining is that it needs a lot of water and that’s all

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Optix334 t1_irztxpj wrote

It makes Soil unusable and pollutes water sources with heavy metals while making the air around the area physically harmful to breather.

Then refining it is one of the more toxic processes of all metal refining.

You didn't try to find anything. Even just reading the Wikipedia page gives you more credible sources on the damage it causes, and its obviously way more than "It uses lots of water". Come on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impacts_of_lithium-ion_batteries

Like did you read the first couple sentences and skip the "many accounts of dead animals and ruined farms in the surrounding areas of many of these mines. In Tagong, a small town in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture China, there are records of dead fish and large animals floating down some of the rivers near the Tibetan mines. After further investigation, researchers found that this may have been caused by leakage of evaporation pools that sit for months and sometimes even years"?

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