The ‘sacrifice zone’: villagers resist the EU’s green push for lithium mining
Residents of a Portuguese rural idyll where four vast mines are planned are among those who feel they will pay too high a cost for the energy transition
Lithium Extraction
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Theres no right answer. Someone somewhere suffers for our convenience.
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‘We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil’: the villagers who stood up to big oil – and won
The fossil fuel industry faces a reckoning in the Niger Delta after disasters made it one of the most polluted places on the planet
That is sure the truth!
Maybe it depends on cost. If it’s costing the UK alone £500m a week to try and keep folk who are suffering the ill effects of air pollution alive, it might be cheaper to buy people living near mines off?
ICE pollution has very local effects in terms of its health impact.
UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say
ICE pollution has very local effects in terms of its health impact.
UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say
