It's also worth noting that the mining of lithium can be dangerous and harmful.
For a long time, people co-existed with the salt flats and volcanoes. The communities located in this area usually had alpacas and farmed. As people started coming to the salt flats and there have been more droughts, people have been changing their daily lives, though many people still have alpacas that roam free by the volcanoes and eat the plants that grow there. The extraction of lithium is new, because it's used for modern technology like our phones, batteries, cars, medicine and airplanes.
