[hfsp]

There are enormous environmental and human rare earth mining costs to assumedly "clean" and "green" electric cars, and solar panels.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-....

[ravi-delia]

I feel like that's only surprising with a very naive worldview that everything is either 'good' or 'bad' in all things. It's like people who act all shocked and betrayed that electric cars use grid power.