Film Screening Science Film Festival
The world's largest science film festival is coming to Rwanda!
Join us for the movie "The Story: Electric Cars - How Environmentally Friendly are They Really?"
More than 47 million cars on our roads make for bad air and fuel climate change. Electric cars are supposed to change that, because they are praised as emission-free. But are they really the salvation for the environment and climate? The largest component of an electric car, weighing several hundred kilograms, is the battery. An important component of the battery is lithium, a metal whose extraction destroys fragile ecosystems in South America and robs the local population of land and water. The authors conducted on-site research and show the effects of the lithium boom: an ecological and human catastrophe, accepted for the "zero-emission car" in Europe. And the production of electric cars requires many other raw materials besides lithium, the extraction of which also destroys the environment. Researchers at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy have calculated: The environmental impact of all the materials used in production is twice as high for e-mobility compared to cars with combustion engines. Climate benefit from electric cars? Do e-cars help in the fight against climate change?
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.