Poor, naive video.  Nickel is necessary for Stainless Steel.  Imagine life without Stainless Steel.  The issues you raise re mining are examples of the worst operations rather than recognise the practices of the vast majority of the industry.  There are many other uses of Lithium than just batteries.  Cobalt can be mined as a by-product of nickel mining.  Before batteries this source provided adequate supplies.  Your quality of life and standard of living depends upon the mining of minerals.  Whatever, you have in your life, if it can't be harvested or gathered it has to be mined.  Try and cut down a tree with an axe.  Just focus on the lack of effective carbon footprint of EVs - otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot - unless you want to go back to the Stone Age and live without electricity.