They won’t leave. It’s inexhaustible. Best learn to live with the pollution!

So extract all the value and give it to rich ppl while leaving everyone else to clean up the mess left behind?

I know there’s been lots of headlines in the past like OMG there’s not enough lithium! It’s never been true.

It’s one of the most abundant elements out there, it’s everywhere. It was always more about what reserves we knew about, but when what we knew about wasn’t going to be enough, people go looking, and it’s abundant.

Also the more uses there are for it, the more profitable it is to extract from these methods and the better we get at it, the cheaper it is to extract, which further opens up even more options.

I don’t actually remember any articles that claimed there were lithium shortages in that there isn’t enough on the planet, but rather that China is the only country with a working supply chain.

This shit really bothers me.

Wow that’s great for the people.

Well yes, 3 of them

Incoming reclassification of maple syrup as a WMD.

That’s a perfect description of Carney’s MO.

We know and that’s why we’re getting a citizen army of 300,000 and we’ll party like it’s 1812 part two electric boogaloo.

“This ‘syrup’ comprises a clear and present danger to the United States of America. Operation ‘Freedom Fries’ has been authorised!”

You’re showing your bias. That was Canada’s position well before Carney was on the scene.

Tosh will be happy

That potential would place Cisco among the largest hard-rock lithium prospects now being tracked in the James Bay region.

That’s way less impressive than the headline makes it seem.

It’s one of the most abundant elements out there

I mean, it’s not. Either in the crust or the universe - stellar nucleosynthesis skips straight to carbon.

Your point still stands, though, since abundance is only one of the factors that goes into how easy something is to recover.

Canada is a first world country, so no.

Depends where it is. Where it is in this case, it seems more likely than not it’s on Crown land, so yes, until a producer buys it from us.

“Almost inexhaustible”

Humanity: Hold my beer.

Wouldn’t wonder if the US discovers tomorrow that Canada is run by a drug cartel

We only do that with agricultural workers and Tim Horton’s restaurants.

America: “That’s ours! We called it!”

Lithium is quite rare. Essentially all the lithium that exists was created at the big bang, and since then the total supply has been diminishing with each generation of stars - they fuse lithium into heavier elements.

There’s less lithium all the time