r/Futurology • u/ToffeeFever • Sep 10 '23

Energy Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

So let’s absolutely destroy the desert so we can harvest lithium until the next best thing. What a disaster. We are never ever going to learn.

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u/hsnoil Sep 11 '23

So you propose to do more damage by continuing using fossil fuels?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

How about we at least make provisions for the indigenous tribes living there. Some of these deposits are burial grounds.

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u/hsnoil Sep 11 '23

There are no tribes living there, and these sites are not burial grounds(Its a place 31 people died during a war 200 years ago but the area they got approval for doesn't seem to be protected in itself). The company already committed to assisting the nearby tribes closest to the mines

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Do your research. https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/indigenous-fear-desecration-of-burial-sites-at-thacker-pass-lithium-mine/

The company committed to assisting them? How exactly? The area will be UNINHABITABLE.

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u/hsnoil Sep 11 '23

There are no tribes in the area, the tribes are again a decent way away from the area. Notice how none of them are claiming they live there? All they are claiming is "it is scared land", and what makes it sacred ground? Cause 31 people fought there and died in a war. But it isn't like they are building a mine that covers the entire pass, only a small portion which they got approval for and after multiple court cases won each one

Your own article says "U.S. District Judge Miranda Du ruled in September 2021 that presented evidence doesn’t show a massacre occurred “within the project area.”"

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

What about sources of water? The residents in that’s area already struggle with clean water. Would this drain the resources of that community?

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u/fenixnoctis Sep 11 '23

Stop pivoting you lost this one

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u/hsnoil Sep 11 '23

You are aware they don't need fresh water right? grey water, sea water all work

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u/AmeriToast Sep 11 '23

Sounds good to me, never liked deserts anyway.

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u/Marco_Monte77 Sep 11 '23

What a dumb way to look at things