If you’ve driven along the gulf coast the cost of oil is obvious. Growing up it was beautiful view of glistening water under a beautiful sky. Now it’s a post industrial view of oil platforms as far as the eye can see. Where fracking happens there’s earthquakes in geologically stable areas. Etc. Lithium extraction isn’t for the light hearted, but the deposits aren’t as vastly dispersed and extraction and processing happens in a smaller foot print. (Unless you consider extracting from ocean water, but even then the industrial footprint is contained) oil extraction is sprawling and pervasive, and once a well dries up, become discarded blight.