Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient.
Yeah. The lake only currently exists because the canal built to divert part of the Colorado River around there had a massive breach and flooded the dry lake bed. Farmers didn't care because they still had the canal and were not really affected. Now it is all super salty farm runoff. Lithium brine pools certainly aren't going to make things much worse considering the lake is pretty much a giant brine pool.
Oh cool so we can waste those reserves on cheap dumb tat that feel they need to be recharged.
I'm for mining and taking resources if they're going to be for good uses. If say we mine the resoruces and the resources go into making dumb product that just wastes said resource, then we don't deserve the resources.