The Biggest Ecological Disaster - Batteries

Los Angles Ecological Adviser
Jan 5 2015

Who would have predicted that the electric car would turn out to be the greatest contributor to the world's ecological problems.

Tens of millions of batteries need to be disposed of each year and many of them end up dumped in the sea or in Land Fills. The reusable battery was a pipe dream. While everybody expected batteries to be made so that their components would be reusable the opposite was true. The public decided they wanted cheaper batteries not more ecological ones so the very environmentally unfriendly batteries became the battery of choice. Soon most of the manufacturer's abandoned the methods that made battery components reusable. The various organizations that collected the used batteries ran out of storage space and started to sell the batteries to shady operators who just dumped them in the sea.

As a result of five years of dumping the batteries in the sea the metal sales in the Lithium categories have risen to very high degrees and the effects are devastating to say the least. Lithium has been attributed to a wide range of mental disorders in almost all species that live in the ocean and those organisms that eat them especially humans.

David Arnold of the Electric Car Association stated that during the early 2010 campaign to rid the planet of the combustion engine he warned of the consequences of not having a strong control over the production and control of the batteries required for the electric car. Now that it is apparent that the battery poses a greater risk than carbon dioxide which incidentally didn't decrease due to other uses of carbon fuels which were increased 100 fold after more fosil fuel material came available after the termination of combustion engines in vehicles, we find ourselves in a very serious problem.