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The dirty road to clean energy: how China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment

This March, a group of women gathered under the roof of a modest wooden shop in the Kurisa fishing village on Sulawesi, an Indonesian island east of Borneo. The women were gossiping, but mostly, they talked about how there were no fish for their husbands to catch these days. Houses are propped up by rows of wooden stakes so that they stand over the Banda Sea.