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Are electric cars worse for the planet than petrol/diesel cars because of the impacts of mining minerals for the batteries?

Should we switch to electric cars when the batteries are made using lithium? I’ve heard that lithium is mined by children working as slaves and they are mining lithium with their bare hands.

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