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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by blopker on Thursday July 14, 2022 @02:27AM (#32092694)
I'm not going to defend the damage mining like this does, but it seems unfair to say oil is any better [0]. In my opinion, oil causes much more damage and is harder to contain.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by paganel on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:27AM (#32093038)
I agree about harder to contain, that's why that oil pipeline that was supposed to pass through the middle of an industrialised country was cancelled [1], that was a political move by definition, while cobalt mines and the like, because they mostly "happen" in the middle of Africa, are just seen as "doesn't really affect me -> it isn't really that important".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline#Phase_4_(can...

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