Organization demanding forced transition to EVs also opposes mining practices needed to procure the minerals to build the cars
One need only take a very quick and superficial look at the “green” movement to rightly deduce the “greenies” are a bunch of morons—they’re either incapacitated with their hands glued to the road, protesting something by throwing soup all over a Vincent Van Gogh painting, or, demanding a forced transition to battery-powered vehicles, wind turbines, and solar farms… while also demanding no mining take place for the minerals needed to power such initiatives.
For a little context, see the excerpt below from a report at Just the News yesterday:
The Biden administration announced in April that it intended to enact some of the highest air pollution standards in the world for automobiles. In addition to other emission restrictions, the Environmental Protection Administration rules would require 67% of new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032.
This is the sort of tyrannical and unconstitutional bureaucracy that drives me absolutely mad—I want incandescent light bulbs and efficient appliances, not endocrine-disrupting LEDs and “energy efficient” lemons.
But one organization, the Center for Biological Diversity, said Biden’s EPA wasn’t doing enough; from a press release on the matter, the group denigrated the initiatives as “sleep[ing] through” the climate crisis, accusing the agency of issuing rules too lenient and lackadaisical.
Yet, surprise surprise, this same group has also continuously fought the development of lithium mines, due to the devastating effects the methods have on wildlife, our environment, and the landscape. Also from Just the News:
In 2021, the CBD successfully sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect a type of buckwheat that would have been impacted by a proposed lithium mine in Nevada.
At another proposed lithium mine in Nevada, the Western Watersheds Project intends to sue to protect a species of snail from the mine.
(For anyone who didn’t know, lithium is necessary to manufacture lithium ion batteries, used by rechargeable cars, wind turbines, and solar panels alike.)
Now, I will say that as a conservative (meaning I support true conservation) who wants a green earth, not a “green” one, I’m thrilled that the group is dumb enough to fight their own agenda, and is waging lawfare to stop the development of land for lithium mines; what’s concerning though is that I suspect, in some way or another, they’re at the public trough gorging on my money, funding these lawsuits through federal grants or subsidies.
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