In Portugal’s northern Barroso region, Maria Loureiro weeps at the prospect of losing her family’s land to a mine that could become one of Europe’s biggest producers of lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries and other clean technologies.

  • crushyerbones@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree with your points but this isn’t a case of “regretfully, the only place where we can extract lithium is right here, no where else on the planet has it. You guys have to move for the greater well being of mankind”. It’s just a place where we can pump it out cheaper.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed. There are many locations for Lithium, it’s very abundant, so it definitely isn’t the only place it can be extracted. Australia, Chile and North America also have huge deposits. It’s definitely not the only place.