The devastating environmental impact of technological progress
An insatiable demand for the copper, lithium and rare-earth metals required to fuel the consumer electronics and electric vehicle industries is leaving indelible scars on our fragile planet
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-copper-mining-atacama-desert
read that and then tell me is that what you want for cornwall.
The truth is to get all these things you talk about we will all have to live in the big cities and the countryside will be mined and destroyed forever. This is what really makes me shake my head as some do they not understand what really goes on in the world we live in and want to save the planet by destroying it.