by Elisabeth Robson | Aug 5, 2022 | Reflection
Car tires and brakes are major sources of pollutants that are poisoning fish and littering the ocean with microplastics, and EVs will only make this problem worse. Car tires contain 6PPD-quinone, a toxic chemical used to help stop car tires from breaking down. This...
by Elisabeth Robson | May 5, 2022 | Reflection
It’s Not Just Thacker Pass. The Entire Region is on the Chopping Block. by Elisabeth Robson In their June 2021 Fact Sheet about the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project, Lithium Americas includes a two page document about biodiversity at Thacker Pass and claim they have...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 9, 2022 | Reflection
Published March 8 in the Reno-Gazette Journal. Re: “Thacker Pass mine important for Nevada,” Feb. 22: In his opinion column, Glenn Miller claims that replacing fossil fuel cars with cars that use lithium-ion batteries will “provide a major contribution to...
by Elisabeth Robson | Feb 13, 2022 | Reflection
The implications of replacing cars (and other vehicles) with electric vehicles (EVs) are many. As we’ve previously discussed, this includes perpetuating car culture and the devastating damage to the natural world caused by roads, and the massive increase in...
by Elisabeth Robson | Dec 29, 2021 | Reflection
Most of us don’t want to think about climate change or ecological collapse or any of the other crises facing humans and this world in the 21st century. We just want to live our lives. The problem is that the way we’re living our lives is causing pollution, extinction,...
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