Oil & gas will try to draw a false equivalence between the need for minerals & the need for fossil fuels, but there's a key difference. If you want more oil & gas, your only choice is to explore further, dig deeper, do more violence to 🌎. The minerals challenge is different ...
... in that minerals are not the ends, just the means. We can innovate around them. We can reduce the need, find benign substitutions, improve mining standards, figure out recycling at scale, etc. Oil & gas is a 20thC resource problem; minerals is more a 21stC innovation problem.
Battery makers are already moving away from cobalt. Research is underway on batteries with iron, sulfur, sodium, zinc, and other relatively cheap/abundant minerals. volts.wtf/p/the-ongoing-…
Also, as my stalwart followers never fail to remind me, we should reduce the need for cars (& their batteries) by building more walkable, bikeable, livable cities with frequent, reliable transit. Oh look here's one.
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