Oil is greener than lithium?

Also whatever damage to the environment caused by oil drilling on land takes less time to recover than lithium.

If it wasn't for Drake Well's Park and Museum you wouldn't know drilling used to go on there. Even coal mines apparently have a better natural recovery rates than a lithium mine. A lot of used up coals mines that recovered in about a century. How long does an area that has a lithium mine take to recover? Some of the photos I've seen of lithum look like an alien planet.