Perrine Fournier is a forest and mining campaigner at forests and rights NGO Fern. Our fossil fuel addiction must end for humanity to have a livable future. An important element in stopping this dependency is switching from vehicles that spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to electric vehicles (EVs), which pollute far less. Yet the path to a low-carbon world is full of potential pitfalls. A major one is the impact that mining for the critical materials needed to power EVs has on forests a...