Lazarus wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:He's right though.
The resource burn to create lithium batteries is tremendous, the same can be said for copper.
The life of a lithium battery is also limited.
All the fuss around EV seems to assume they grow on trees, zero emissions my ass.
So what's the alternative OOW?
Do we just stick our heads in the sand like children?
Do we listen to the lunatics and pretend it's all a plot by the "Malthusian evil minions"?
Fck that makes me laugh, funniest thing I've heard in ages
Mate, everything we do has emissions, everything we do has consequences, it's simply a matter of accepting that we've screwed the pooch and start dealing with it as best we can.
I smoked like a chimney for 35 years and this Thursday my GP informed me of the consequences of that.
I can piss and moan that the evil minions of big tobacco have conspired to kill me or I can be an adult and accept that I've dropped a pile of sh!t in my own nest.
We need to stop thinking of how we're losing our favourite toys or that things we don't like are happening and start thinking of what our children are going to have to deal with, man the fck up and start to act accordingly.
The alternative that no government wants to talk about. Dropping the world's population to a sustainable level that is in harmony with what the plant can handle and provide for.
Instead their hell bent on population growth because they don't have the testicular fortitude to step away from tge Fiat dollar that only works with an ever increasing population.
The big problem we're facing, be it man made or not is we're moving into a climatic period that means we can no longer feed the world's population with our current farming methods and diets.
I believe that's why governments are s**ting their pants.
Sure we can try, mine the crap out of the place scraping together every known ounce of lithium and copper burning trillions of litres of diesel in the process, smash out millions of electric vehicles ... s**t I can't afford one, by the time they're on the second hand market they're like a hot potato changing hands because the battery is f***ed... well just mine some more because recycling little tightly rolled packages of copper, lithium, vanadium, cobalt, iron and plastic is cost prohibitive.
I think Governments need to wake up to the fact that pushing for an ever increasing population on a planet with finite resources is the most crazy plan ever conceived yet they're pushing ahead with it.
Working on creating a new financial system (or re introducing an old one) while creating incentives to depopulate is could be a more effective plan.