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No. That's not what I'm saying.So you are saying it's acceptable to create the new technology in an unfriendly way which we can ignore for the time being because it will get better? (hopefully - my word not yours)
Whilst it's totally not okay to create new technology in an unfriendly way. Hence it is not okay to mine for cobalt in this way. But reasonable, yet short, time has to be allowed for development. The root cause of this is use of cobalt in EV batteries, so if we can reduce or remove cobalt from batteries, the problem goes away. Or work with the suppliers to mine ethically.
It's like Apple iPhone production. Initially there were news of Chinese factory worker suicides and all sort of problems. That was dawn of smart phone era. Apple worked through the problems with their supplier and now is considered established player in the phone domain.
Now, we are at dawn of mass EV adoption. Supply chains are not well established and there are many problems there. But if we kill off EV based on this single negative, ignoring all other benefits EV adoption brings, we'll never get anywhere.
Tesla, just like many battery manufacturers are working to reduce and remove cobalt from their battery packs.Tesla use the materials mined in the creation of their vehicle, as they wouldn't be much use without a battery pack
End of the day, does it matter who actually uses the mined resource?
I'd rather a single company that can be held accountable uses the mined resources.
Because otherwise, if there is a petrol station that sells ethically mined petrol in a stable area of the world that was mined in an environmentally friendly manner and refined using renewable energy, transported using ultra-low-emission vehicle, but costs double. I highly doubt there will be people queuing up for this.