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Nevada lithium mine leads to 'green colonialism' accusations (www.bbc.com)
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Nevada lithium mine leads to 'green colonialism' accusations::The rush to mine lithium for car batteries is dividing environmental and native American communities.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In the high Nevadan desert near the Oregon border lies an enormous deposit of lithium, a metal that is essential in the production of electric car batteries.

In March, the diggers moved into a stunningly beautiful area called Thacker Pass, 4,000ft (1,219m) above sea level.

Mr Biden has said explicitly that he wants the US to be the world leader in electric cars - and wants the lithium that is key to making them to be mined in the US.

Every year a group called The People of the Red Mountain come here to remember their ancestors - who they say were murdered at Thacker Pass.

Mr Crowley also points out that some local native Americans are already working on the mine and support the project - something Ka'ila accepts too.

She believes the Thacker Pass mine is a textbook example of "green colonialism" - the notion that once again native people are being ignored, this time in the name of preventing climate change.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am all for the protection of the environment and sacred ground, but if doing so helps prevent our and other creatures extinction, I am willing to look the other way.

Whether this actually does that is yet to be seen and verified as worth it.