Why couldn’t I have been born in a saner time

  • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    22 days ago

    yeah, electric vehicles and stuff could theoretically help by centralizing the energy to efficient source points for gathering and storing the energy (which is still fossil fuels which people forget often) which is used for charging batteries (disposal then becomes its own things, as well as mineral components), rather than just dumping gas and oil on an individual level into every vehicle large and small, efficient and grotesque, and all the idiot consumptive stuff like lawn mowers (which pollute way worse than cars because there’s no regulation and the engines are much less efficient);

    But the US doesn’t and won’t have that, because its energy sector is owned by ‘decentralized-centralized’ monopolies (a bunch of shells and subsidiary daughter companies owned by the same people, for book-cooking of course, legally and financially), whose sole goal is profit and increasing consumption in general. China has the capability to do this ‘centralization-for-efficiency’ transition to cut emissions; but the US not only won’t, but is incapable of doing so without completely smashing and overturning its entire structure of economy, and the political structures which grow out of it.

    In short:
    EL PROBLEMA ES EL CAPITALISMO