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Right! The "morality" bit is interesting, because many people see the whole EV vs. ICEV as a strongly moral, and not scientific, debate: I was describing the environmental issues of the EV battery economy to an acquaintance of mine who is a member of the Greens and an espoused environmentally-conscious person; I talked about the problems of externalizing mining impacts and CO2 emissions, material and energy balances that didn't currently look favourable etc.; he nodded and seemed rather interested: we then carried some things to his car on the parking lot, and it transpired to be a large Mercedes plug-in hybrid (and his other car a smaller pure BEV), upon which he remarked "I'm afraid I haven't reached your ethical standards in this area"... What???!!! This is about knowledge, logic and reflection (in that order)! If we all try to find out more about those aspects, we will stand a better chance of doing the "right" think in an ethical sense as well...
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