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When any domestic policy gets pushed, pay close attention to who colonial propaganda gets amped up against. Do you think it’s a coincidence that as more people started talking Green New Deal, Bolivia propaganda amped up? Nothing is disconnected, it all works together.
Their lithium reserves were estimated at 21 million metric tons in 2019. For the Green New Deal, you gotta mine for resources like batteries, the solar panels, the turbines, and much more. Where would the lithium for those lithium-ion batteries need to come from, then? You know
the answer, and I know the answer. Don’t disconnect the material relationships to imperialism and policy, or you fall into imperialist traps.
More reading on this one: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2019/11/05/mining_the_green_new_deal_110487.html
