That Green EV You Bought To Save The Planet Is Killing The Chilean Desert Eco System

That Green EV You Bought To Save The Planet Is Killing The Chilean Desert Eco System
The oases that once interrupted the dusty slopes of the Atacama desert in northern Chile allowed humans and animals to survive for thousands of years in the world’s driest climate. That was before the mining started.

Sara Plaza, 67 years old, can still remember guiding her family’s sheep along an ancient Inca trail running between wells and pastures. Today she is watching an engine pump fresh water from beneath the mostly dry Tilopozo meadow. “Now mining companies are taking the water,” she says, pointing to dead grass around stone ruins that once provided a nighttime refuge for shepherds.

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Bach24Bach24 - 6/13/2019 10:06:14 AM
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This is just a bump on the road on the way to saving the planet. Besides it's in some remote area; we shouldn't concern ourselves with such trivialities.


skytopskytop - 6/13/2019 10:06:44 AM
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Saving the planet by buying an EV....Another liberal myth blown up with reality.
Now the idiot liberals are working to eliminate airplanes as well as internal combustion engines.


TruthyTruthy - 6/13/2019 1:11:32 PM
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This is so far removed from what was actually said that it is sad it is mentioned.
Yet Private Bone Spurs signaled to other governments today (are you listening Russia) that he is willing to listen to dirt on his political opponents and won't tell the FBI.
This is breaking the law and depending on WHO he is listening to, treasonous. Yet you anti Americans support him and the fascists in Congress pretend they did not hear it.


TruthyTruthy - 6/13/2019 3:11:27 PM
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What branch did private bone spurs draft dodge from?



TruthyTruthy - 6/13/2019 4:18:31 PM
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Trump's excuse was fake like his presidency.
Women were not drafted back then.


TruthyTruthy - 6/13/2019 4:19:46 PM
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Trump = treason.


TruthyTruthy - 6/13/2019 6:34:58 PM
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I do not know why, nor iis it important to this discussion. She was not drafted. tRump was and pussied out of it 4 times! He just committed a treasonous act today by inviting foreign actors to provide data on political rivals. This is a crime and their is no equivicating around. And all the balless republifascists congressmen jsut say, "well I wouldn't have said that." It is treason. He should be impeached before Labor Day and in prison before Thanksgiving.


Bach24Bach24 - 6/14/2019 11:37:05 AM
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I guess you didn't get the sarcastic tone.


TruthyTruthy - 6/14/2019 4:25:04 PM
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You can be a feminist without joining the military.
You seem to ignore tRumps's denegrating war heroes and gold star families while he dodged the draft. Hillary did not participate in this type of hipocracy.
The best president in US history was never in the military.


TomMTomM - 6/13/2019 10:37:40 AM
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It already has been determined that the mining of the rare earth materials needed in EV production causes MORE pollution than ICE engine currently do.

THIS is not in any remote are - it is called the ATMOSPHERE - and it is COMPLETELY around the world - it is not concentrated in one remote area. The pollution of the atmosphere is not stationary - it actually mixes and moves all around the earth.

THen - add in the pollution caused by electric production.

Eventually - according to you - the good air area will be concentrated on one remote area.




MDarringerMDarringer - 6/13/2019 4:36:40 PM
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We don't care about Chile. We need those resources for our EV that we drive to the hate marches...you know...the sh!t the Democrats do.


TruthyTruthy - 6/13/2019 8:56:53 PM
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If you check your facts, it was tRump's supporters that held a hate rally in Charlottesville and one of them MAGA boys drive a car into a crowd killing one young woman. But hey, there are good nazis, according to the guy who invited foreign interference into the 2020 election.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/13/2019 10:30:13 PM
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Your hatred for Trump is such a psychosis that no one even listens to you when you spew like that except the other hateful psychos like you.


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 6/14/2019 2:59:55 AM
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He has a revolving door for a cabinet, even his closest people are not supportive. Hillary would be terrible as well, but almost anyone including Pence would do a better job at this point.


TruthyTruthy - 6/14/2019 1:27:01 PM
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it is not hatred MD. It is love for this country and the rule of law and respect for its institutions. Trump ignores what made it great.and just admitted he would commit treason (again) to get elected.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/16/2019 11:19:00 AM
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@Truthy it IS hatred. You get absolutely VENOMOUS on this issue. It's not cold dispassionate reasoning. It's histrionic, over-the-top, shrill, borderline-psychotic ranting. That is clinical evidence of hatred.


NewQNewQ - 6/14/2019 2:15:07 AM
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I am almost laughing out loud at all of this.

Look at yourselves. "tRump", "hilLIARy", "hate marches"...

I suppose it's not unthinkable that children are on this website, but generally speaking I was under the impression we were all adults here. What kinds of grown people act like this? How do you have positions in the working professional world? Is this how you interact with people in real life?

I think it's unfortunate that rather than "maybe you're right, let's get back to speaking civilly about the automotive industry", someone is more likely to call me a "libtard" or "deplorable" or talk about "triggers" or "treason" or something like that.

Truly, I am baffled, and I wonder how you go about your lives, if this is what's in your heads.


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 6/14/2019 3:00:42 AM
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Truth


TruthyTruthy - 6/14/2019 4:26:29 PM
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TRump followers tend to go off the rails at even the slightest whiff of criticism of this future inmate.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/14/2019 4:48:58 PM
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And Liberals "birdwalk" away from the issue and its facts into bullying the point of view of anyone they disagree with because they are intolerant and narrow-minded. Then they conflate that bullying attack into it being a logical rebuttal and absolute refutation of the topic under discussion. When people resort to an ad hominem attack, they signal that they cannot prevail in the discussion...so they attack the person.

#bullying
#intolerance
#hatespeech


TruthyTruthy - 6/16/2019 10:17:49 AM
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Trump just invited foreign actors to provide Intel on US citizens who run against him. So, Russia 2.0. He has enraged our intelligence services, considered the best in the world.
He has broken trust with our allies by pulling out if agreements with a reckless tweet.
He runs a lawless administration by ignoring the rules and regulations that have made America the richest most powerful nation the last 75 years.
These are facts. Do not conflate them with attacking him personally only.


MDarringerMDarringer - 6/16/2019 11:19:56 AM
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This "Trump just invited foreign actors to provide Intel on US citizens who run against him..." is a gross mischaracterization of what he said.


TruthyTruthy - 6/17/2019 12:01:16 PM
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What he said is treasonous. He has also made the US an unreliable partner with his reckless behavior. This is why, if you pay attention, most of our allies are not automatically believing this administration's "evidence" that Iran was responsible for the recent attacks in the gulf. His total lack of respect for them is being repaid.


TruthyTruthy - 6/14/2019 1:28:24 PM
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I am sorry, but that dessert already looks dead.


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