$6.7 trillion invested in #GreenEnergy since 2004. To continue this green dream the world will need 10 million tons of new copper supply over the next decade, or the equivalent of a new Escondida copper mine, the biggest in the world, into production every year. #GreenEnergy 
The Chinese copper smelter Guixi had the largest production capacity worldwide, amounting to some 900 thousand metric tons as of June 2022. In the process the smelter has caused cadmium, arsenic, copper and lead contamination in the soil and water.
Coal remains at the heart of China's flourishing green economy. In 2019, 58 percent of the country's total energy consumption came from coal, and China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined.
Those tens of millions of windmills, solar panels and EV batteries for cars and trucks aren't exactly biodegradable. We will have the most prominent energy graveyard with toxic pollutants that will be 100 times larger than any nuclear waste storage. Green? Hardly.
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