“Rare-earth ore deposits are found all over the world. The major ores are in China, the United States, Australia, and Russia, while other viable ore bodies are found in Canada, India, South Africa, and southeast Asia.”

Basically, they are all over if you look for them. Nor are they inherently required.

You mean like the internet?
All the assorted arguments for and against, reasonable and unreasonable, true and false, are available and nobody in America is really muzzled.

Actually, we do and the government does. If you own property with mineral rights, you own any oil or gas on that property, down to the center of the Earth. Other nations have different laws but I’m talking about ours. (You just can’t actually get to most of it.)

And the government owns much property with mineral rights.

People and the government often sell or lease out to corporations since they have the know-how and resources to reach what you can’t.

David for nuclear power

The metals being used for solar panels and batteries are not an infinite source. However, metals used for solar panels can be reused when the panels are decommissioned, and there is a much greater supply of lithium than the equivalent amount of fossil fuels.

Most of the energy being used to build solar panels does come from fossil fuels. However, the manufacturing process uses a fraction of the energy the refining petroleum does, and as we switch to more renewable energy sources, more of the energy used in production would come from renewable sources.

Strip mining is bad for the environment. Do you know what’s worse? Fracking and oil spills, two byproducts of fossil fuels.

Slavery is terrible, and we should fight to combat it everywhere. However, saying renewable energy is evil because some countries use slave labor to produce the raw materials is like saying wearing clothes is evil because sweatshops exist.

It’s great that you’re asking questions. But maybe you should try finding answers to the questions you’re asking and thinking critically about the conclusions.

Do you believe that the heavy metals being mined for the production of solar panels and electric car batteries are an infinite source? If not do you think these metals being mined are renewable? Do you think the energy used to refine those metals comes from solar or wind? Do you believe the earth is in a better shape for the strip mining of those heavy metals and the deforestation of vast swaths of land destroyed for the solar panel farms? Do you not care about the slave labor being used to mine and produce these materials?

If you can answer yes to any of the above I would ask that you might listen to, or research, other than main stream media sources that are simply mouth pieces for those liberal elites with a political agenda.

It isn’t brainwash to question what does not make sense once you’ve truly looked at the whole picture.