In the name of climate action, California pushed the world toward electric cars. But building enough of them is creating its own environmental crises. Subscribers get early access to this story:
of what’s been branded “Lithium Valley.” It is a sensitive assignment in a region where farmworkers and Indigenous people have long suffered from toxic air created by agricultural runoff that became airborne when the sea’s water level dropped.
They note battery technology is advancing fast — as is recycling technology — and the materials firms are clamoring to mine could be obsolete by the time they start tearing up the earth.Workers disembark in San Diego from the vessel that recently returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean.The debate over how much damage should be inflicted on the planet to save it may be most intense far out to sea.
“Every single part of this nodule I hold in my hand is usable material,” said Barron, the company CEO, as he showcased one of the rocks from the giant ship that had just returned from its six-week expedition in a remote region of the Pacific called the Clarion Clipperton Zone. The Metals Company points as an example to cobalt, a key component of the batteries. More than half the world’s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo,Amnesty International estimates some 40,000 children are working in the country’s cobalt mines.
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