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Europe's mining quest faces a hurdle: angry locals

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europes-mining-quest-faces-hurdle-angry-locals-2023-09-13/

In Portugal's northern Barroso region, Maria Loureiro weeps at the prospect of losing her family's land to a mine that could become one of Europe's biggest producers of lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries and other clean technologies.

Europe's mining quest faces a hurdle: angry locals

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MrKurteous

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Despite a certain amount of hipocricy, this hurts to hear about because of how electric cars are actually a very bad way to attempt to solve the climate crisis, when we in fact should replace cars by public transport and bikes, and trucks with trains, etc.

I am not 100% what other "clean" technologies they are referring to (busted, yeah I didn't click the link), but I worry some of them might also be highly inefficient ways to improve things that are more akin to greenwashing.