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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

I know there's been lots of headlines in the past like OMG there's not enough lithium! It's never been true.

It's one of the most abundant elements out there, it's everywhere. It was always more about what reserves we knew about, but when what we knew about wasn't going to be enough, people go looking, and it's abundant.

Also the more uses there are for it, the more profitable it is to extract from these methods and the better we get at it, the cheaper it is to extract, which further opens up even more options.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 34 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 hours ago

It's funny cause it's true. Trump wants to invade Greenland and Canada; it's not just because he's a piece of shit dictator. He's after resources for his cronies.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 33 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Great! Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

So extract all the value and give it to rich ppl while leaving everyone else to clean up the mess left behind?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.

Ah! Someone who's familiar with Alberta oil & gas extraction.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

…AND BC lumber, AND Ontario steel, AND maritime fish, AND everybodies’ water and minerals, etcetc

I call it “outsourcing profits”.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 68 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

We need a government with the balls to nationalize this shit, and charge for every single gram that's being extracted. And do the same with every other natural resource, including oil.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 41 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Oooooh, best we can do is let corporations rape and pillage the land, and make citizens pay for the whole operation through taxes, sorry.

[–] anguo@piefed.ca 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Don't forget about the cleanup after they're gone.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

They won't leave. It's inexhaustible. Best learn to live with the pollution!

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago

Right right right, thank god the peons will pay for that too! Can't hold anyone accountable now, can we?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s trickle out economics.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Trickle down economics, because they're pissing on you.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 5 hours ago

Best we can do is sell it all for 2% of its worth

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And it belongs to the people of Canada. Right?

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

You mean...the 51st state of 'Merica?

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 76 points 7 hours ago

"Inexhaustible"

Humans: hold my beer

[–] cheeseburger@piefed.ca 81 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 51 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

"It'll be our beautiful 51st state!"

🎃

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 17 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

More like the US will be bought by Canada.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

I too like to help people out but I don't know if we'll survive absorbing Florida and Texas while remaining a federal democracy. We already have Alberta and it's difficult. 😅

(AB canucks, this is a joke. Please don't get mad at me. If you still do, I apologize.)

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If Canada got rid of FPTP, proportional representation and ranked voting across all its provinces (Texas and Florida would become provinces) and federation (get rid of the monarchy), Florida and Texas would be much less of an issue.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

For sure. That said PR isn't a panacea. It solves a legitimate issue but it doesn't solve the orthogonal and serious problem of democracy's tendency to represent large capital.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Just take the northeast (NY, VT, CT, MA, NH, RI, ME), and the west coast. The rest won't complain.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Please do, I would rather be Canadian these days.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

The PNW would complain.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 5 hours ago

A few more states would be happy to join I'd say.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Ugh. Try living here!

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Is Canada that big on charities? I know they’re well knows as being pleasant and kind, but are they so pleasant and kind that they’d accept a catastrophically bankrupt welfare country as their own?

There no expected ROI on America for decades!

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 hours ago

They can just own it like a colony. All the control, none of the financial responsibility.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

One can only hope. Just think of it as a renovation project.

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 hours ago

Finally, good news for people with bipolar!

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Time to invade. After all what yours is ours. I wish I was joking.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Don't tell trump

[–] Zealotte@lemmy.zip 19 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Are you folks interested in some freedom!?

Asking for your neighbors to the south.

/s, just in case it wasn't obvious.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I hope y'all don't mine it with child and slave labor like everywhere else.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

We have significant lithium mines in Australia, we produce the most lithium in the world presently. Zero child or slave labour.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This isn’t the fascist states of america.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Lol yeah but it's still a capitalist system, bud.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

That's right, we got that sweet cheap desperate-educated-foreigner-being-paid-peanuts labour instead