The energy required, despite the quantity of lithium (which wouldn’t be available anyway) would just surge carbon output to later reduce it decades later. We can’t capitalism our way out by making more things. Stopping making everything would actually help more, but would implode the planet’s societies. Throttling energy use by AI and other expensive processes would do more, now. Pushing the use of public infrastructure, even busses, would do more now. Getting people to stop using cars would do more now. Forcing employers to require jobs that don’t need a physical presence to all be work from home would do more now.
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