cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1175848
Archived version: https://archive.ph/kT9XT
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230807194706/https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/07/uk-is-building-europes-first-lithium-refinery-that-could-power-up-to-a-million-electric-ca
We’ve only been practicing agriculture for like 10 000 to 14 000 years so it’s indeed obvious that without cars everything would collapse. And just as recently as a few hundred years ago, the US and Canada absolutely needed cars to be developed. Before cars, humans have never been able to achieve anything significant.