Cost of EV Batteries

Been saying this since the EV boom. EV's are not green. Not by any stretch. The ecological damage to mine materials that have an abundance less than fossil fuels, the dependency on foreign nations for those raw materials (there's already talk about mining unexplored areas of the sea floor which have totally unknown consequences), the emissions from manufacture, the hazardous waste and caustic by-products from manufacture, the continued reliance on legacy power grid to produce and charge EV's and the lack of any plan to handle the hazardous waste when the batteries wear out all seem to get conveniently omitted from the sales pitch. The push to fuel this agenda (pardon the pun) is based on facts manipulated to support it. Emissions measured at the tailpipe is the tag line. But it's only a fraction of the life-cycle impact. I am not saying EV's don't function OK as a product, but they aren't green. And financially I can't see how this plays out better than ICE's running on fossil fuel. The batteries cost more than the vehicle is worth after a few years rendering the whole vehicle a loss, as raw materials become more scarce they'll be more mining, more eco impact and higher costs, and all this greater demand on the power grid is going to raise everyone's electricity costs whether you own an EV or not. EV's are an alternative but it's not better than ICE's, it's just a different set of problems and kicking the can down the road.