Electric Vehicles: Beyond the Carbon Question

Cliff Rice, Research Scientist (retired), Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Member, Board of Directors, Alliance for Tompotika Conservation.

We’re in a climate emergency. Electric vehicles are needed as part of the clean energy transition. They also increase short-term carbon emissions, destroy rainforests, and dramatically increase dirty mining for battery minerals. What’s a conscientious planetary citizen to do?

Join us on May 26th as Cliff Rice talks about these important issues. Cliff was born in India and his interest in wildlife grew out of childhood experiences in forests and mountains of India. In addition to his doctoral research in South India on Nilgiri tahr, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, coordinated research on sloth bear (in India), and was a biologist for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. He has retired from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife where he conducted research on mountain goats and black-tailed deer. Cliff got interested in electric vehicles because of their connection with nickel mining in Indonesia.