Green in My BackYard, Gimby, is the philosophy that we must take the responsibility to execute the transition to Green Technology and the resulting strains on the environment resulting from new raw materials required. Going green requires a whole new list of raw materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, magnesium, rare earths, silicon, and copper. These metals require mining and extensive processing.
For five decades we have pushed the responsibility of mining and processing these raw materials to other countries where the devastation on the environment was outside of our control. Often great harm was done to the environment as we pushed technology off of our shores because we did not want the technology in our backyards, NIMBY.
Now I am advocating we keep the technology from the mine to the manufacturing plant to the sales office in our country and we do it green and clean.
