How can we even think about approaching carbon neutrality if the thirst for consumption in industrialized countries continues to increase? How many metals are used in the manufacture of the batteries of an electric bicycle, an electric car, and in how many kilograms? What is the percentage of metals that can be recycled in a smartphone ? How to separate metals from alloys? How can we imagine extracting ore from rock without resorting to fossil fuels? […]
Does achieving carbon neutrality mean sacrificing water, soil, biodiversity and entire populations? Are we not in a race of destruction that we call transition?
What about mineral resources in Ukraine and everywhere else in the world? Who will get rich from mining? Who will become poorer and how? Who will die and why?
How is globalization accelerating the destruction of the planet? What are the basic needs of humans? What cannot living things do without in order to live?
What will become of Mont Saint-Bruno, one side of which is increasingly damaged by extraction… whose rock is partly used to fill the marshes of the Northvolt site? How many Quebecers will drive a Tesla whose battery comes from Northvolt in Montérégie?
To prevent the planet from warming up, its destruction must stop and tempers should be heated!
To read : The mining rush in the 21st centurye century. Survey of Metals in the Transition Eraby Celia Izoard.
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