Chinese demand for nickel, an important ingredient in EV batteries, has triggered a mining boom in the remote regions of Indonesia. The country has signed over a dozen deals worth more than $15 billion with suppliers for EV giants like Tesla and Hyundai Motor, but deaths and injuries from industrial accidents have been racking up.
Or the fact that a lot of people don’t like to live on top of each other, or that a lot of people have to live not in cities to enable city life.
It’s almost as if people think produce magically appears in the store shelves.
But it’s 2023 - we should be able to mine ore responsibly, not keep digging like it’s 1903.