[zachalexander]

> Batteries are not clean; lithium mines are one ugly slight and recycling is difficult:

You are conflating two senses of "clean" that are radically different in meaning and importance.

-- Fossil fuels are !clean in that they may destroy all life on earth via catastrophic climate change.

-- Lithium mines are !clean in that they present waste disposal challenges and some people find them "ugly".

It's like saying "your non–blood diamond is still a blood diamond because the jeweler got a papercut while handling the documentation".