In the next 25 years there needs to be more copper mining than in all of human history. Among many competing demands is the need of copper to make electric vehicles. “Replacing today’s 1.35 billion light-duty gasoline and diesel vehicles with EVs and supplying the expanded market (estimated at 2.2 billion cars by 2050) would thus require nearly 150 million tons of additional copper during the next 27 years,” scientist Vaclav Smil explained.
Copper mining is intensely polluting.
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