[landemva]

Human injury is radically different than a bug in FB/TWTR mobile app.

Safety is expensive. In USA mine safety is regulated by MSHA. Is anyone surprised that much mine production (except heavy stuff like gravel sand coal) is done overseas and imported? The lithium in your EV is not from USA.

[Godel_unicode]

The US is third in global mining activity, behind China and Austria.

[landemva]

I think we mostly agree, though likely Australia. It takes a lot of gravel and sand to build stuff. Due to the weight and bulk, this mining is kept close to home.