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Article: Defining overshoot and under-reported news from the technosphere - Overshoot means extracting raw materials from the Earth faster than it can replenish and wasting faster than the Earth can absorb. Manufactured goods (computers, smartphones, wind turbines, solar PVs, e-vehicles, batteries, air conditioners, refrigerators...) require overshoot.
Construction crews are getting to work on a lithium processing plant here at an open pit mine in northern Nevada that mine owners say will -- finally -- soon produce vital material for electric vehicle batteries, a key part of the Biden administration climate change agenda.
Article: An opportunity to put lithium mining and unlimited growth on trial - Just before I published 'When Land I Love Holds Lithium' (June 10, 2023), about Max Wilbert's work to protect Thacker Pass, Nevada, from lithium mining, Lithium Nevada Corporation sued Max and six others for Civil Conspiracy, Nuisance, Trespass, Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations, Tortious Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Unjust Enrichment...
Article: When Land I Love Holds Lithium: Max Wilbert on Thacker Pass, Nevada - In 2020, after learning about a proposed lithium mine in Nevada, Max started Protect Thacker Pass. This account came from conversations Max and I had in April and May, 2023.
The decarbonized, electrified future envisioned by the Biden administration, state governments, automakers, utility companies and corporate sustainability goals depends to a huge degree on minerals …