Mining Industry Warns Energy Transition Isn’t Sustainable

[pipedreams]

"Mining industry executives have been warning that there is not enough copper, lithium, cobalt, or nickel for all the EV batteries that the transition would require. And they have not been the only ones, either. Even so, the European Union just this month went ahead and effectively banned the sales of cars with internal combustion engines from 2035. 

More importantly, van Staden added, “What’s more, the accelerated shift to batteries now threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history: the systematic extraction of raw commodities from the global south in a way that made developed countries unimaginably rich while leaving a trail of environmental degradation, human rights violations, and semipermanent underdevelopment all across the developing world.”"

https://oilprice.com/Metals/Commodities/Mining-Industry-Warns-Energy-Transition-Isnt-Sustainable.html

"The good news is that all these problems with the transition were more or less taboo until recently. Now they are being talked about more and more, and this would hopefully lead to a readjustment of goals or at least timelines to make them more realistic."

[railfancwb]

The point is not to transition people from useful internal combustion vehicles with their independence but to transition people into shorter range electric vehicles with their invisible extension cords and then into mass transit with its associated apartment living.