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In Portugal's northern Barroso region, Maria Loureiro weeps at the prospect of losing her family's land to a mine that could become one of Europe's biggest producers of lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries and other clean technologies.

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[โ€“] nitefox 1 points 1 year ago

Last month, climate activist Greta Thunberg protested against plans to develop a huge rare earth metals deposit at Kiruna, in Sweden's far north, which the area's indigenous Sami people have decried as "colonialism".

We are to fight climate change, we have to fight for people exploited in (proto) third-world countries... just not in Europe cause then it's bad

This hypocrisy is so maddening