Nickel is used for lots of things
"EV obsession" is not a thing unless "ICE obsession" exists, and both sound ridiculous
The mining companies are responsible for their own actions, not consumers at large
Indonesia is letting this occur and could theoretically step in at any time as far as I can tell
Genocides are always on "an entire population" so that phrase is meaningless

[–] wellfill@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you mean by your last point. Genocide only being on whole population. Where did you get this definition.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The word. Genus-cide.

It's the killing of a genus, a race.

[–] wellfill@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So you dont have a source of this definition? Because in international law its defined quite differently, which is quite obvious since your definition, as given, would not classify many real instances as genocide.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's the entomology of the word.

Legally they have a definition which broadens the concept to not just direct killing of a people, but also acts that lead to the eradication of a culture. For example: kidnapping the children of a group and raising the within your own culture is a genocidal act as it leads to the culture dying off, even though no actual killing has taken place.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

entomology

You mean etymology.

Entomology is the study of bugs.

[–] wellfill@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes and relevantly here it also ceases the necessity of total eradication.

[+] Garibaldee@lemm.ee -10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I categorically disagree, and callous people like you are the reason why something like this is allowed to happen in the first place

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Will you categorically stomp your foot and ignore every single argument in that comment as well? Because you're almost there!

Blaming consumers for things that happen at least three indirections removed from them is childish. A consumer cannot know where all the resources are coming from.

Blaming EVs for this, is just as childish, if not actively evil, since the alternative would be oil extraction and that's not exactly clean and happy either.