Former President Donald Trump had bragged about his success in opening the region to oil production after decades of political fighting over the resources locked under the tundra there.

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    A billion people are on track to die from climate change, according to some estimates.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-1-billion-people-on-track-to-die-from-climate-change

    Even if we call that highly inflated, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, some non-negligible number will certainly die as a result with some multiple of that facing harsh negative impacts. A disproportionate number of those will be in Africa.

    If your argument is based in morality, it’s absolutely absurd to suggest the moral concerns of cobalt mining outweighs that of climate change.

    You raised a very valid concern, let’s work to make it better instead of running back into the burning building.

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      The number of people killed by extreme weather events has been drastically declining for decades so I’m not too worried about the fear mongering of the “1 death per 1000 tons of carbon”. Especially when they follow it up with this: “This rule is actually “an order of magnitude best estimate”, which means it’s more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned.” So they are saying 10 billion people could die based on the high end of that estimate. That would be something.

      So yes, buying a vehicle powered by gasoline is far morally superior to a vehicle powered by batteries. One is a well regulated US industry with millions of high paying jobs. The other has kids dying in mine collapses to try to make $1 per day. If the industry can figure that part out then things we be a lot more equal between the 2.