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Chile Is at the Heart of the Green Energy Transition
People who live around chiles salt flats have been campaigning for mining of lithium to stop, at least until its impact can be fully assessed. In addition to resistance of the locals, politicians have piled in with a debate about who should get the money. This type of discussion is common to many countries with abundant natural resources, but in chili it's particularly intense because we're now at the dawning of the green energy revolution and lithium has a starring role.