On April 28, the online seminar of Brot für die Welt, FDCL, MISEREOR and PowerShift on the topic of electromobility took place.
Recording of the online seminar
At the outset, Cesar Padilla from the Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina (OCMAL) presents the challenges of lithium mining in Chile. It shows the importance of South America for the battery raw material and shows the effects on the ecosystems. It concludes with demands not to expand the current reduction for the time being, but to analyse the potentially negative effects much better.
Merle Groneweg from PowerShift places the challenges of extracting raw materials in a context of the current debate about electromobility. It shows the expectations for future consumption, the selective effects on the resource-rich regions and that a one-sided focus on a drive turnaround is not sustainable. Instead, she advocates a different transport policy in Germany, which focuses on both a turnaround in raw materials and a turnaround in transport and initiates a shift away from individual automotiveity.
Afterwards, some questions from the participants will be presented and answered, including the impact of mining on indigenous communities in South America, the need for a supply chain law and positive developments in recent years towards an ecologically and socially better mining.
