Re:Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry
by UtopiaPunk on Monday May 08, 2023 @02:01PM
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Chile also has a leftist president now with a strong desire to protect the environment and lithium mining can be very harmful to the environment. Obviously a big reason Lithium is valuable is for EV batteries. Managing these resources to prioritize the the health of the planet will probably look very different than prioritizing profits, so it makes a lot of sense for the government to step in.
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As long as the most important health of the plant factor isn't maximizing extraction, which given the climate crisis it _could_ be. Kind of an interesting juxtaposition in general -- normally we think of them going hand in hand.