Let’s not propagate this argument disingenuously. Electric cars aren’t perfect, but a quick check of the history of the combustion engine will tell us that sufficient time and R&D will take care of many of the mining and materials issues that exist in current electric car manufacturing processes.

Those are not the primary long term problems with those. Electric cars still require roads, tires, parking lots, etc. That’s why they are ‘better’ due to no direct emissions and higher efficiency, but they can never be ‘environmentally friendly’ because they will always need expensive and harmful infrastructure.

Plus they tend to be heavier so they cause even more damage to road surfaces.

Even the heaviest electric car has nothing on a tractor trailer.

Most of the damage to road infrastructure comes from big rigs.

In sure that eases the mind of the children mining for lithium

You are confusing cobalt with lithium.

Also the existing oil industry also uses cobalt

https://www.chargesmart.co.nz/amp/cobalt-mining

Better a few children mining lithium then fossil fuels killing the whole planet.

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By any chance, are you typing your replies on some kind of computer? Perhaps one containing a selection of rare metals? You can’t just point at cars and say “evil” without addressing the entire rest of technology.

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