"Stop Telling Kids they’ll Die from #ClimateCrisis –we need to chge this narrative. We need to stop putting tht burden on our kids– not only b/c it’s cruel, but because it’s wrong & ineffective in helping us turn things around.

We don’t need to pull the wool over their eyes...pretend that there's no problem. But we can & should focus on what we can do about it. B/c we can do something about it. A lot."

#HannahRitchie #SustainabilitybyNumbers #Substack #Ecocide
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/young-climate-anxiety

Yes, #criticalminerals are important for the transition to #renewables, and we should think hard about reducing their impacts and building more justice and equity into their extraction...

BUT, as this #hannahritchie piece points out, switching to RE from fossil fuels will radically reduce the overall level of extraction and mining.

https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/mining-low-carbon-vs-fossil

From #HannahRitchie's newsletter (#Sustainability by numbers):

#ElectricVehicle #batteries would have cost as much as a million dollars in the 1990s

In the last 30 years, the price has fallen by more than 98%.

#EVs didn’t stand a chance of making it commercially until the last few years.

They’re not just cheaper, they’re much smaller and lighter too.

Batteries have followed what we call a ‘learning curve’, where the more you build, the cheaper they become.

https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ev-battery-costs