Argentina's 'white gold': Will its lithium boom end badly? | People and Power
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- čas přidán 15. 03. 2023
- Argentina is home to huge reserves of lithium, a light metal used in electric batteries that is likely to be vital for reducing our reliance on planet-warming fossil fuels.
But those reserves lie beneath the vast Andean salt plains - a unique ecosystem stretching between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile that Indigenous communities are desperate to protect from a mining boom.
They say lithium production sucks up scarce groundwater and would be environmentally catastrophic for this stunning but arid region.
So, is it possible to extract the metal - and fight climate change - without causing significant ecological damage? People and Power investigates.
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Geez...they're EVERYWHERE!! Like ants! Giving away our resources
Definitely gonna cause pollution there
a question, does any argentine know if they import sodium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate from outside argentina? if they are imported, you have to force them to extract it inside Argentina.
The government should make a agreement with the indegios people .
And help them you can't do something like that and not give them nothing .
Build things for them and there children.
Justice exalts the people,
and sin is the poverty of nations.
Thanks for posting
Beautiful scenery. A pity about the virtual absence of any science. In a future video, please consider interviewing Lithium experts too, e.g. Daniel Jimenez, Joe Lowrey, Howard Klein, Rodney Hooper Alex Grant and many others
The video isn't about the science of lithium but the impact of it's extraction on the environment and communities as told and lived by the impacted communities.
@@Re_RAM I thought getting EVs will save the planet :P
@@MetalGearMk3 🤣🤣They will never understand the obvious haha
Yep, we can see you more concerned about the earth ahh.digging up more holes,that's really going to help ! What is it going to do with the imviroment! Well done 👏 😢😮
Raise their property tax so they can leave
5:30
🇺🇸: Argentina has the nuclear bomb, now I'm going to freedom.
👍😄😁😁
If the water is not poisoned if it's very clean pure you can give it to the farmers that are planting to water the plants the farmers said that they don't have water is dry season.
Some of the data at the beginning is incorrect:
1. Lithium is not becoming more valuable each day. More popular, maybe... The price has been stable throughout 2022, and plummeting for the past three months...
2. $85000 per tonne!? As of yesterday, which is also the date of upload of the documentary, the price is 319,500CNY, which is $46,364.
The first google search result shows that the price of lithium has at least doubled in the last five years (2017, from tradingeconomics on lithium carbonate). This may drop once seawater extraction becomes cheap enough, but for now the price continues to rise, although slowly.
The $85,000 per ton probably came from cherrypicked data on the same chart from Nov 2022, it was around the 590,000 CNY mark which IS around $86,000 USD. As for the time/amount difference, video pieces are produced weeks/months in advance, so that statement may be five months old.
So many fools talking about things they don’t understand.