Where's the part where you talk about the fact that all of those harmful materials can almost entirely be recovered by recycling old battery packs, turning this mining and climate issue into a logarithmic decline in terms of per-car impact?<br><br>Usually I like your videos, but talking about how every problem that is not EV's is the problem with EVs is kind of daft.<br>Child labor, dangerous mining operations, fossil fuel plants are not the problem with EV's, they're problems that exist with or without EV's and need to be addressed on their own.<br><br>Other industries caused a need for this kind of cheap energy and labor, and everyone can agree that the world shouldn't be unfair like that, so address the real problem because taking EV's off the market doesn't do that.<br><br>Data shows that driving EV's has a positive impact on the environment over the entire life cycle of a vehicle (that is considering like for like with ICE vehicles in terms of production, emissions, fuel transportation, disposal, etc.), and Tesla currently produces more energy with solar than it uses to produce and charge vehicles or power their factories, so the energy argument is just bad.<br><br>'The problem with electric cars is that the electricity is derived from fossil fuels anyways'.<br>The problem isn't the EV, it's the fact that you're generating energy using fossil fuels, and that is the problem that needs to be fixed.<br>Some countries run almost entirely off renewable sources already so the scope of this argument is basically just, 'because it's bad in the US it's bad for the whole world.'<br><br>Well the US' love of burning fossil fuels is something you have in common with China, the two places that think the solar system revolves around them.<br><br>You should look up those old Cigarette commercials from the 50s and 60s where Doctors recommend certain brands and even make claims that they're perfectly safe or healthy.<br>But we all know it's BS and someone is stretching the truth for a payoff.<br>Data that is cherry picked and funded by the tobacco industry to prove their product is safer than it is.<br>Similar to how the same thing could be happening right now because there is a fundamental disagreement in this debate about whether or not EV's are net positive to the environment, but the data from 3rd party non-influenced sources suggests that yes they are and all of the mining operations and production stats are accounted for in that, so to me the entire purpose of this video is just to be combative for the for the sake of being a contrarian.,(reply>), Phones, fridges, chips and batteries in ICE vehicles, laptops goes on and on. Plus ICE cars aren't free to make either. Bit of nonsense argument. Where I live hydro gives us all our energy in the summer anyway. Costs basically nothing to drive an electric vehicle.