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The dirty road to clean energy: how China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment (restofworld.org)
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In neighboring Indonesia, nickel extraction is causing environmental and social devastation.

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[–] fnzen@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I admit, I did not read the long article. Of course the mining of the resources necessary for electric cars is not without downsides, like a lot of resources. Care should be taken that the downsides are minimized.

The good thing is once the resources are mined and they are used in a battery, they can be recycled almost completely. Whereas once petrol is burned, it's gone forever.