"Adoption of the EV is trading one demon for another."

To quote Michael Barnard on the subject...

"Orders of magnitude less mining than current fossil fuel extraction annually. Currently extracting almost 20 billion tons of coal, oil and gas mostly to burn once.

Need to extract tens of millions of tons of minerals which will have lifetimes measured in decades and centuries of use and reuse."

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/04/how-many-things-must-one-analyst-get-wrong-in-order-to-proclaim-a-convenient-decarbonization-minerals-shortage/