Article needs to put these levels into context.
So in total, you dig up an incredible amount of material for just a single EV battery.
So what? How does this destroy the environment.
Sometimes I fart when I work out, does this mean I shouldn't work out because it hurts the environment?
This is how it destroys the planet: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future
These strip mines are incredibly destructive. Also, at the end of their life they need to be disposed of or recycled. That is another entire rabbit hole to go down.
That link only makes a subjective statement that it "can" hurt the soil / water but (1) doesn't go into any detail about the scale, severity, time to recover, ongoing containment effort, etc. And (2) doesn't make any attempt to back its claim up other than link to a PDF that does the same fucking thing, just further referencing a defunct website.
We might as well panick about the toxins used to make paint or to bleach paper to make it pretty white.
TL;DR: these articles are nothing but FUD.
A picture says a thousand words. Did you look at the pictures? Do like 2 minutes of research on lithium mines and you will see the obvious impact on the planet. Or just keep acting like you're so smart and you know everything and whatever.
Why use EV batteries when drilling for oil and natural gas is already a thing?
Regenerative braking. Gas guzzlers waste the kinetic energy as heat through friction when decelerating, while EVs convert a lot of it back into electrical energy to store back in the battery for the next time they accelerate.
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