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realce on Aug 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for human...

Digging up lithium is nowhere near the same as mining fossil fuels. You're literally just washing rock with water and you can clean the water afterwards.

tmountain on Aug 9, 2021 [–]

It's also super concentrated in the Salton Sea which limits the global scope of the mining operation.

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