BREAKING: study finds that increased mining for clean energy transition minerals puts more than 4,000 mammal, fish, bird, reptile, and amphibian species at risk of extinction.

Global warming and fossil fuels are an ecological disaster. "Green" energy is more of the same.

I've been warning people about this for years. We need to question so-called "green" technology. It's lower carbon, yes — but still incredibly polluting and ecologically destructive.

And it's not working to solve global warming. Emissions are higher than ever & rising.

One example: Tesla Corporation produced 50+ million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023. Their customers' EVs only reduced emissions by 20 million tons.

This means Tesla is a disaster for the climate - just like ICE cars. As the climate crisis accelerates, every bit of carbon matters.

This study ONLY looks at vertebrates. It doesn't include plants, fungi, insects, shellfish, etc. That means this is an underestimate of the number of species threatened with extinction, probably by several orders of magnitude. Vertebrates represent less than ~1% of species.

Thacker Pass, Halmahera Island, Rhyolite Ridge, Haut-Katanga, Kennecott, Bayan Obo, Carajas: mines are among the worst ecological disasters on Earth.

More mining is not the answer to the ecological crisis. It's an attempt to maintain an addiction to energy and consumerism.