“Battery production causes more environmental damage than carbon emissions alone. Consider dust, fumes, wastewater and other environmental impacts from cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; water shortages and toxicspills from lithium mining in Latin America, which can alter ecosystems and hurt local communities; a heavily polluted river due to nickel mining in Russia; or air pollution in northeastern China, as mentioned above.”
I copied and pasted that from an article online. My son had to do a report on the disaster lithium mining did in some South American country’s and how it damaged whole ecosystems and water supply to towns around the lithium mines. I believe theres no solution for this, there always gonna be a draw back somewhere. We should just go back to horses and wagons, that will really curve pollution