No cost is too high to meet Eurotopia’s insatiable demand for green virtue-signaling. Forests are being devastated to provide wood to burn for power in place of coal of nuclear for no logical reason. (And as an added bonus, burning wood to make electricity releases even more CO2 into the atmosphere than the technologies it replaces.)
The latest virtue signaling fad to sweep Europe is to outlaw cars and trucks that are fueld by gasoline and diesel fuels. Sweden and France have already passed laws to phase out non-electric vehicles by 2040, and there is a movement for other countries to follow suit. It is an article of faith on the environmental left that electric cars are non-polluting and will save the world from ManBearPig.
The batteries to power Eurotopia’s new fleets of electric vehicles will require staggering amounts of rare Earth metals as well as lithium and cobalt. The extraction of these elements from the Earth is so environmentally devastating that no advanced western country would ever allow it to take place on their soil. The Eurotopian greens are only too happy, however, to shift the burden to places like Communist China and Africa, where environmental protections are non-existent and the people doing the hard labor are so backward and deplorable they probably use the wrong gender pronouns. So, who cares what happens to them?
By the way, as an added bonus, those electric Tesla’s and Volvo’s also promote third world child slavery.
Dorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death.
Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, calls cobalt ‘the new gasoline’ but there are no signs of new wealth in the DRC, where the children haul the rocks brought up from tunnels dug by hand.
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No one knows quite how many children have died mining cobalt in the Katanga region in the south-east of the country. The UN estimates 80 a year, but many more deaths go unregistered, with the bodies buried in the rubble of collapsed tunnels. Others survive but with chronic diseases which destroy their young lives. Girls as young as ten in the mines are subjected to sexual attacks and many become pregnant.
Yeah, but isn’t it worth it for the smug sense of superiority leftists get from plugging their Teslas and Nissan Leaf’s into the power-up station? It totally is, isn’t it?
The new Pharisee drives a Pius.
I don’t get it. Electricity comes from a wire, just like food comes from a grocery store.
That is why we need governing government. Somebody has to see that the wires have electricity and the grocery store has food.
I don’t get it. Streets have to paved and we have to have governing government to do that during rush hour. I mention this because governing government has to get food to the grocery store and electricity in the wires.
This isn’t rocket science, people. Also, all those people living very far apart out in the “I” states and hillbilly places are straining the governing government by the inefficiency of long roads and long wires and the long way to the grocery store.
Move them into compounds for efficient governing government servicing. Like those Japanese who all decided to live together as a favor to Saint F.D. of Roosevelt during WWII. Gaia bless them, they were so patriotic about helping governing government. Why don’t those people scattered around NASCAR world do the same? Do it for the government and the chil’run.
Don’t give them any more ideas, Heliotrope.
I know that it’s a difficult concept for the Left to wrap their little genderless heads around; but there is no such a thing as a clean fuel or energy source & even when that day does come, which it will, there will be some muddy floors getting that source into your vehicle, into the buildings of our cities & countryside. Children, somewhere, are going to die in their quest to provide for themselves. Instead of being deprived of a livelihood by self-righteous Leftists completely, thereby ensuring their demise.
Thinkers on the Left understand all this, but their main agenda is the constant attack on capitalism. Literally. So, again; the little mike’s & “Cas’s” of the world are left with nothing but the broken donuts in the box after everyone’s raided it. SOL because no matter what, they got to stomp their little feet. Obama Obongo educated them well.
Even more realistic than all this is the fact that Bacteria and Viruses (whether consciously or not) are driven to reclaim the planet all of us animals stole from them. And it’s a raging battle, one that we likely will lose.
But why be suicidal about that? The day will come regardless of our efforts. Regardless that we move to “clean” and “renewable” energies. Regardless that we begin travel to Mars. Regardless we find a way to morph through black holes or whatever the fuck it is that CERN is looking for.
And, BTW, it is curious that the global leaders of EndTimes Science Inc want to shift away from the standalone fossil-fueled mechanical world and switch to a connected grid with the BS about environmentalism. It’s really about getting everyone onto the grid, which is fostered through digital technology. And they’d do it in whatever way they have to, but fossil-fueled machines won’t be powerful enough. They don’t give a crap about waste or illnesses. Electrifying and microwaving the planet to the degree that we already are and upping it exponentially in the coming decades, never mind centuries, ain’t gonna be any better.
It’s a ruse to get us to the next phase of control. Nothing tin-foil about that, either. Look how they need to control people’s discourse online. You know they are not happy about free-range society. We stupids have to be regulated before this freedom shit gets out of their control. LOL.
Talking to young peeps here & there, like at the grocery store and the gym, and I can tell you they are totally down with complete electronic organization of their lives. They see not a thing wrong with that whatsoever.
So they found a source for the cobalt and lithium for the batteries. As a liberal local radio talk show host said down here (Garland Robinet)”where are you gonna get the copper for all those motors from? ” The Congo , again? (By the way, how is the Democratic Republic on the Congo a democracy, a republic? )
I believe the (((government mandated))) electric car movement is an attempt to destroy individual movement, to drag the masses back to the horse/buggy days where only the elite could easily travel.
Imagine a gas station, right now, with each EV taking a minimum of 30-45 minutes to finish its business & only getting an 80% charge because of they physics of fast charging.
Good news Cobalt and lithium are in Afghanistan, we can buy it off the Chinese who are enjoying our stabilization of the region.