At what point do we collectively decide cars just aren't the future, electric or otherwise?

Support for our Paiute and Shoshone siblings from Chile! We are currently writing our new democratic, new Constitution and we won't allow Lithium extractivists that damage our nature in our land.

There is no such thing as clean green energy this is always a dark side to all forms of energy.

THIS MUST BE SHOWN ON THE WORLD NEWS CONSTANTLY ‼️

So Oil is in increasing limited supply, but not Lithium, Cobalt and Copper, that requires intensive mining? Battery technology still has to evolve drastically, to ensure a truly "Eco friendly" and "Sustainable" switch to electric cars.

We found the SPICE…

It sucks that your land will be uprooted for lithium. Consider the steel, copper or aluminum you use in your home. That ore had to be excavated from somewhere.

Greed greed power control

There should be no question about this. Their land! Respect it!

4.6 million gallons of fresh clean drinking water a day will be drawn from the Quinn River and the aquifer to develop this lithium pit so the rich can drive a tesla. As the drought in the southwest worsens, what is more important??

May the great spirit be with you and your ancestors and your ancestral land 🙏🌎🙏

This makes the R&D on batteries made from sodium, or lithium extracted from seawater, all the more important.

We fight on!! Protect Peehee Mu’huh! Solidarity with Ukrainian people protecting their lands too!!! We gotta do what we gotta do, always have✊🏽

I feel that Knot too‼️😭

Find areas away from tribal land would be my solution to looking for lithium in America.

There is free energy available for everyone.

Thank you for posting this!

Is there any petition to ban this

Because the US hasn’t already done enough to the original natives of this land. The fall, of the US, is going to be brutal. They should be given, land back, not further desecration. Brutal!!!! Enough chances to turn this around were given, treaty after treaty broken.

They can make synthetic diamonds but they can't lab grow batteries.

We need degrowth, not electric cars. We need public luxuries like free green public transport and more leisure time to enjoy with our family. The demand for individual private electric cars keeping us commuting to our unnecessarily draining jobs - it's not sustainable for people or planet. Oh and solidarity with indigenous peoples, always.

Cornwall has lithium

Imagine how the people of Africa feel when the US come to the continent and mine resources without remorse

I do sense there is a lot of grey in this topic and also making it clear that it’s not black and white also it does effect people both ways.

And yes. The irony of my energy consumption to make these comments is not lost on me.

Sorry but this is a Trolley Problem. Who should we pull the Switch for? The World as it suffers from Climate or some Native Americans?

But they’ve just discovered over 1B in lithium in Maine, where mining is outlawed… why isn’t anyone trying to extract that? Or are they just waiting for an opportunity??

We need to go back to horses and mules!!!

Indigenous peoples, at least, deserve big royalties for the mining of their home lands.

I saw a Lummi flag flying in the background. Representing👍LAND BACK!

feeling protective of Steve 😅 I felt she was a bit nervous trying too hard . just a wee bit intimidated?

Why don't they come to Pitcher Oklahoma it's a ghost town and has alot of the lithium and other things in pitcher and a couple of surrounding towns there in Oklahoma.

#landback

Thanks

Lithium is massively abundant everywhere

Nothing is genuine any more.

You people have the right to say no to these multiple billionaire s that's. You're land you fight what is your 🙏😎

Stop scarring the land."I stand with the American Indians.

Miyutake oyasin Weve only one earth.

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

This video convinced me to invest in the Thacker Pass mine. Thank you. A figurative gold mine AND a controversy to boost the media around it? Sign me UP!

Give up some money and make the deal

Solar cars?

Be very wary of the conflation between a hallmark for cleaner solutions (EVs) and indigenous land rights. The problem is the inherent actions of capital against indigenous peoples who are left exploited and disposed for their land. Indigenous peoples have a right abd a voice to their land, not the forces of keeping commodity market prices healthy. Clearly, the corporation element, the free market element, the profit motive can be omitted to create a conflict of interests in the public. One should examine of Bolivia's socialist government (pre 2019 coup) enshrined all of its resources to the land and people of Bolivia. They were building their own Lithium "mines" where the Bolivian government can determine its own price for lithium-sodium carbonate and their own Electric vehicle programe . That protected Bolivian recourses from free market commodity exploitation from the US and Canada - hence the astro-turf far right coup.

protect thacker pass

AIMNNV✊🏽🙏🏽✊🏽🙏🏽

ditch the cobalt & lithium... let's just use Vibranium

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Lithium does not require destructive means like this video suggests. Please learn more

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Contaminate the lithium without destroying or damaging the land and the land will be safe.

How did your ancestors use this Thacker pass area when it was Lake Bonneville? This was a lovely enjoyable inland ocean teaming with fish and wildlife back in the day... The lake bed should have been left alone by native humans.. Native humans should never have tread on the bones and shells of the receding lake. At what point does someone decide that they can lay claim to land use? What gives the people today any voice?.. its amazing that we suppose we are somehow important in all of this. Do you suppose that the planet is somehow being anything more than indifferent to human existance or protest?

I mean how else do people get minerals for you to have the way of life that America has provided you. Cars, A/C, plumbing, electricity. You can romanticize the old times all you want but in that era y’all were fighting and killing each other and the euros came and protected and provided for you. Ya there are trade offs, but if you really wanted to live that old life you could and would.

mine away, these aren't environmentalists but opportunists.

Cry me a river.

can't wait to see this project breaking ground!! 🔋⚡♻

Sick and tried of all the crapola being flung around about how all this land is somehow "sacred". Fact is 99% of the time its not sacred at all. It's empty sagebrush land that no native Americans even live close by, let alone have even walked on or looked at. Then there's all the sudden, well, its not really sacred when they want to build a Indian casino.....

Local resident of the area. It’s funny to have the tribes say protect the environment. The Shoshone reservation in the area is a wasteland of trash with zero regard for the environment. Guess they didn’t want to show that….

It's flat useless land just mine it.

I’ve never seen this coverage in the US

Why some of the Native Americans looks like East Asians ? Are they related ?

lol if they want to go environmental just use horses

Supercapacitors are the awnser. They don't require lithium as they can be made from graphene which is simply carbon. As an added bonus the geopolitics of securing lithium supplies is removed.

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Move out of the way!

acting is low bar need you to stop lieing

Libs eating libs

Most of the Lithium is used on Goths, not batteries.

Disingenuous video in that it focuses on EVs. In reality since their invention in 1992 the world has produced hundreds of billions of lithium batteries. Cell phones ALONE account for at least 12 billion. Add cameras, pads, laptops, speakers, hearing aids, lawnmowers, children's toys, drones, airplanes etc . Where was the outrage as 99.9% of these batteries ended up in landfills and incinerators? EVs have opened the door to mass recovery of the chemicals in the batteries. Many companies have started down the path of 100% recovery and reuse. To pretend we could stop this process is delusional and dishonest. What's truly needed is dialogue, education, negotiations to minimize damages to humans and the environment in which they live. We're now 8 billion humans. Civilization has been wildly successful. We now have the tools and know how to address some of the harm. How about we focus on that and dump grievance pushing journalism?

If one grain of soil is moved we lose, our planet loses. Lets save the planet. lets dig holes in it.

Thanks biden

Sacred land because there was a battle / massacre here.... *Belgium coughs*

The government of Qatar should stop inciting hatred and contempt for homosexuals. It is not enough to allow the rainbow flag to be raised in stadiums. Rather, they should abolish the prison sentence for homosexuals. If the authorities do not respond, FIFA must transfer the competition to Britain, where all the infrastructure is ready and respect the rights of homosexuals and transgender people.

Every square inch of this earth is indigenous, one group of people are never more important than another .so we either stop digging everywhere or learn to live with it

The spice must flow. We're not going to torpedo our economy because some random patch of desert scrubland suddenly became "sacred" out of nowhere. Now they have a sacred mine I guess.

It is not indigenous people’s land. Clearly it was purchased by the mine company. These people need to get coordinated and and keep some records where they bury their “sacred “ ancestors.

The billion dollar question is why do we need to get away from fossil fuels in order to make lithium batteries they have to use Fossil fuels to do it, it doesn't make sense.

The need to have a reliable source of lithium to support US energy needs overrides "sacred".

Why indigenous people are entitled to own large trunk of land for free while the rest of American wage slaves are forced to pay high gas prices and rent? That's acceptable?

I'm a progressive, I'm also an ESG investor and I do my due diligence. Lithium batteries offset their carbon footprint and go on to produce free green energy for decades after. And EVs end ice vehicles and minimize fossil fuels which is really killing mother earth. And now that more money is flowing into the space we have new clean and sustainable lithium extraction tech (DLE)! We also now have economically and environmental ways to recycle lithium batteries. But we still don't have enough lithium available. So we will need lithium mining and new discoveries and new materials to compete with lithium batteries storage especially. But Lithium demand is here to stay.

Pick one the oil pipeline or lithium. Stop whining

Major lithium mine essential to electrification vs sage bundles and prayers

Trump should be jailed for dismantling the EPA and allowing disasters like this to be approved and causing Flint Michigan resident to still have no clean water!!!

Im sorry native people but I disagree. If this was for Gold mining then i would 100% side with the native people... but we need to get rid of fossel fuels! Think about the kids in 3rd world countries mining lithium in life threatening situations.. I feel that us removing lithium from the desert (mostly open unoccupied space anyways) is much less an issue as long as there are strict rules about putting the dirt back so there are no huge pits left over after the deposits are removed. Its the lesser of two evils and needs to be done. The native people need to make sacrifices for the betterment of our world and to keep us from having slaves in 3rd world countries mining lithium..

You know peoples sacred lands can wait. The sacred lands are being destroyed by global warning. We need this metal.

Sacred schmacred. Lol at those crying over a massacre from 1865. The hardships of your ancestors are not yours to claim as your own.

TITLE SHOULD SAY: USA ABOUT TO INVADE CHILE TO PROTECT NATIVE INDIAN LANDS FULL OF LITHIUM AND INSTALL DEMOCRACY LOL

Been out there hundreds of times,never seen any Indians out there

Like a protection camp with some Indians is going to save the land. Not happening. Lithium here we come! Hahaha. What happened to Cleveland? 😃😃😃😃😃