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Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge
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Oh please! I'd love to see Big Oil shrivel and die just like our societies and very planet have under their influence.
They will just take all their oil billions and buy up battery companies at the last moment.
They can do that with a lot of them, but not all. You can't really sell an oil platform when nobody is buying oil anymore. The "stranded assets" is a huge motivator for fossil industries to prolong the switch to renewables as long as possible. Problem is the governments being complicit. They could have made clear paths from when on no new fossil investments were allowed to create a proper phase out.
I'd appreciate if people just like you would stop taking any solace and tolerating this bs. The ONLY reason this shit continues to happen is because too many people do nothing. Then when asked they get defensive and say, "What am I supposed to do?!" followed by "What are you doing?!" Like guys, you're smart enough to recognize the perils of these industries, read journals and papers, and internalize the evidence, and you can't fucking do a quick Google search on activism and even lightly contemplate entering yourself into local politics?
Come now.
I was taught a lesson when I was younger that you cannot compare your trauma to that of another. I also learned that it isn't rage which defines progress, it is determination. Apathy, a loss of hope, quells the spirit and stunts progress. Those not on the Right are especially individualistic. We cater to the spirit of independence, while also celebrating love and community, though always as individuals to individuals. It's not "I" or "Myself" that makes the change. The shift happens when we step up together and change sets in when there is a united, achievable goal.
In near every recent movement the Left has been a part of with the exception of Bernie, there has been nothing that was clearly defined and clearly achievable. Just a bunch of angry people loosely pointing fingers. FeelTheBern DID work and imagine how things may have been different not if Bernie had been elected, but if we with our strength of spirit continued down a united path. Bernie's ENTIRE message was never about getting him elected, it was always about us coming together and being active as one.
I'm sad that so many people seem to have forgotten that.
Exactly why "we" is important. People are struggling and it's difficult to consider the world when your own life is falling apart.
Unfortunately I don't have a true solution to this beyond the need for a real leader to step up. Well...there is another solution, though I'd rather not speak of it for fear of ending up on a list. It's also not one I support. Still, I feel strongly that we can find our way.
At the very least I'm not just going to roll over.
You say "do something" and follow or with "protest"?
Concrete is effective at sealing shut bunker doors, and air ventilation systems, as is caulk
Yeah, but humans are not very effective at organising humans to act in their best interests in a coordinated and logical manner. I feel that this will be even more of a challenge post-collapse. Some bunkers may get caulked. Most will get left alone.
Are they actually saying that? The kids or the parents?
Too bad the lithium battery industry is no better. Those places are child labor slave mines and the environmental damage is astronomical..
You're probably thinking of cobalt or perhaps hard rock lithium mines. Most lithium is just pumped out of the ground as brines, just like oil.
This is true but coal mining is just as bad and requires orders of magnitude (mineral fuels) more excavation than all of the other minerals combined. If we can stop mining coal by using renewables the total amount of mining will be a fraction of what it currently is. Plus many of the other minerals can be reused where coal just ends up as carbon in the atmosphere.
This is exactly it. Of course battery production is harmful too, but not only is it less harmful than other sources to extract, you also don't have to burn batteries to generate the power. With fossil fuels, the extraction is massively more harmful and then the use itself creates even more pollution.
Trees are technically a green, renewable fuel (if humanity used them that way). The carbon dioxide released is that which was sequestered during the tree's life.
But oil is gathering material that accrued over vast amounts of time, and using that, dumping huge volumes of co2 directly onto the air. There's no cycle happening there - just pure extraction for our extinction.
Just take a look where most of these rare raw material resources exist and note what attitude these countries have to the environmental cause. Zero, none. Russia, China, Africa https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinas-mines-rule-the-market-of-critical-raw-materials/a-57148375 I bet they won't mind destroying whole local ecosystem just to get extra bucks Europe needs
well damn.. learned more about mining in 267 pages than I ever thought possible
You really sound desperate to reject any possibility that hard work and human ingenuity can solve problems. I assume it's because you're scared of feeling you have to actually take life seriously and consider the implications of each choice you make.
I reject the possibility that exploration of workers isn't going to be a part of this "human ingenuity". Enjoy your electric cars all you like, but don't pretend nobody was exploited in the making of it.