[bottlepalm]

Mines will open as demand goes up. No shortage of lithium whatsoever. No technical breakthrough needed. The batteries we have today are good enough. There is plenty of opportunity to mine cleaner and more responsibly, but that's just a policy issue. Not insurmountable.

[lm28469]

Do you know the impact of mines ?

Do you think they use lemon juice and electric excavators ? No, they go though thousands and thousands of tonnes of dirt to get grams of valuable metal while pumping shit tonnes of chemicals in the ground. All the byproducts are then stored in tailing dams which have the annoying tendency to leak or straight up break

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings_dam

[bottlepalm]

There are two options - don't mine, or mine responsibly. One of those options isn't realistic, so it's really only one option.

It's also the primary concern of the linked article, 'lax regulation', not necessarily mining itself.