This is an area in which humans have been consistent from the beginning of time, the degradation and misuse of the less fortunate to serve the purpose of those who feel entitled to live their best lives. The richest countries in the world have large populations of people who feel entitled. So I sincerely doubt if the lithium battery is going to produce a kinder and gentler way of producing the goods needed to provide the privileged the life they are accustomed to leading, a highly mobile life which didn’t even exist a couple hundred years ago. I am a lower middle class person and I include myself in the group of the privileged. The sacrifices that we will be required will be resisted by our own kind.