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At the beginning of July, Tesla received permission from the Brandenburg authorities to expand its Grünheide production plant, the largest in Europe.However, there are numerous concerns from environmental activists and the local population, who denounce the huge amount environmental damage and the deprivation of fundamental resources such as water from citizens, in a region already severely affected by drought.According to recent data processing, the development of the current plant has already cost the reduction of 500 thousand trees.To this data is added that of 1.4 million cubic meters of water which the multi-billionaire Elon Musk's company is authorized to use annually, in addition to the fear on the part of the inhabitants of the possible contamination of the groundwater due to the numerous environmental accidents that have already occurred in the plant. Between approximately 2020 and 2023 329 hectares of forest were leveled for the construction of the production plant near...

TED’s current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, head of TED Chris Anderson and TED’s head of curation Helen Walters speak at Session 11 of TED2022: A New Era on April 14, 2022 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED)

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