The Global North’s demand for lithium threatens a new chapter of colonial dispossession for Indigenous communities across Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.
Because lithium mining requires thousands of gallons of water to separate lithium from magnesium and other minerals through evaporation, I asked members of these communities what would happen if the sources of water were depleted, and the salt flats dried up. The prospects of such an ecological catastrophe were, without exception, unfathomable for members of these communities.
Despite all these protections and the will of the communities to defend their territory, the pressure to authorize lithium mining in the territory of Salinas Grandes has not ceased over the past decade. In the case of Argentina, a federal nation at least formally, these authorizations depend on the provincial governments. Gerardo Morales, the governor of the province of Jujuy since 2015, has been an open supporter of public-private partnerships to exploit lithium and other minerals in Jujuy.
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