Lithium: A Clean Energy Solution with a Dirty Secret

Lithium is essential to saving the world from climate change – but will it destroy the environment in the process?  Ironically, lithium extraction is just as associated with sharply negative environmental externalities as it is with clean and green energy initiatives. The communities where lithium is extracted are already suffering from dire health and ecological issues stemming from the extraction of the metal, but the lithium industry is just getting started. To avoid devastation for such communities, something about the lithium extraction…