"Turns out Li ion batteries are worst than fossil fuels for future of Earth"
Pretty sure over a century ago nobody thought that these Fossil fuels are going to screw the Earth so bad.
Our civilization has come so far but we do have stupid tendency to abuse natural resources and let future generations deal with consequences.
They did.
https://qz.com/817354/scientists-have-been-forecasting-that-...
It doesn't make any sense even in worst cases like "elements of batteries somehow spread across the atmosphere like nuclear fallout". Leaded gasoline already did far worse than even large amounts of trace elements dissipated.
- there's people trying to make this case currently
- when we scaled fossil fuels, terraforming was pure science fiction only, not something anyone realistically expected. it only started to become visible some 50 years later.
I don't think we'll make the same mistakes, but there'll always be new and more expensive mistakes to make.
Could definitely use better filtering for fossil fuel exhaust.