i am a prospector, i spend my summers looking for the copper, zinc, gold, silver and lead that will go into your future electric car. Mining is and always will be dirty, but "green energy" tech, especially anything to do with batteries is so much worse. Lithium brines are some of the most toxic soups mining can come up with, and their critical to recovering enough lithium to make all the future batteries. Unfortunately new brine setups will take years to build and can if improperly setup cause incredible damage to both wildlife and local groundwater. There isnt anything green about "green tech" its all a massive fraud to make you ignore everything that goes on to make that tech.