I don't get it... / General Political Bitching Thread....lol

The root of the problem, just like with the transition from paper & glass to a plastic enconomy, is how industry moved away from natural sources to synthetic ones. Had they kept using natural, renewable sources for manufacturing rubber for tires, the tire material would have been biodegradable, rather than remaining in the environment indefinitely and poisoning living things.

time.com/archive/6819165/science-goldenrod-rubber/

Edison also invented environmentally friendly batteries that are rechargeable and last 30 years. I think it's the same deal where industry bought up the patents and made it so they're illegal to manufacture in countries that obey patent laws.


www.survivopedia.com/the-science-behind-edison-batteries/

When it comes to the Presidential election, some people are already calling it for Harris........I dunno. There was no logical reason for Bush to win after 8 years of Clinton. The economy was good and everything. I remember people saying Hilary had a 95% chance of winning in 2016. A 95% chance. I sat and watched that go from 95% to 65% to 5% then they called it for Trump. Who knows at this point.

If you look back to the 2020 Democrat primaries (not that long ago), remember that Kamala polled lowest among the Dem candidates. Yet, here we are with her as the nominee and noone voted for her, because she never actually had to compete in the primaries.

In the other corner, they give us Trump, to convince Democrats (because Trump is so hated by Democrats) that Kamala is the chosen one. It was the same plan with Hillary - prop up an opponent so hated/disliked that she'd win for sure, but it backfired because there was free speech on the internet the 1st time he ran and his grass-roots brainwashing to save America was quite powerful & underestimated. lol.. They just need to control/censor public discourse on the internet, like they've been doing, and Kamala should have a pretty good chance.

Rethuglicans and Demoncrats. hahah

Just like I was saying..




If you want tens of millions of poor & illegal immigrants to remain here cuz that's the morally just thing to do, you're gonna need to solve the housing crisis first. It's inhumane not having roofs over their heads, relegating them to tent cities or living out in the open.

You're going out on a far limb indeed and with nothing to go on, because you'd need a thorough scientific study to know for sure.

My sources (which, yet again, you conveniently went outta your way to remove when quoting my post) were Columbia Uni and Wired. Where are yours?

Mining itself requires heavy machinery (i.e. high CO2 output) to extract minerals from deep in the earth. Then the energy (again, from fossil fuels, outputting more CO2) to process the raw ore and then manufacture the batteries. If that weren't enough, lithium batteries only last about 10 years (not 30 years, like the batteries Edison invented back in 1901, which also use more abundant, cheaper to extract and non-toxic iron & nickel), so they go into our landfills and pollute our ground water only one decade after manufactured. Lithium mining is terrible for the environment, period.

One other thing. A true believer, who thinks it's of do or die importance, would switch to EVs, like Cop did. Leading by example is important, because when someone doesn't practice what they preach, you have to question their motives, integrity, and standing by their principles. Of course, by this, I'm mostly refering to the elites and politicians.

You should really watch the Kurzgesagt video, as it gives an excellent forest from trees perspective on pollution.

The video explains that road construction itself (specifically, manufacturing the asphalt) puts out as much CO2 as driving cars.

Now factor in EVs being heavier and putting more wear & tear on our roads, meaning even more road construction and the CO2 to go with it.

Seems to me that Gates has the right idea by going nuclear. The government should get behind his plan, like it has with Musk's SpaceX.. i'd argue that clean, alternate energy is even more important than rockets and satellites, even if it doesn't sound as cool. Supposedly, our country wants to lead in AI as well, and the tech giant geniuses say the main bottleneck for advancing AI is our energy capacity. So there's our financial argument for increasing energy production and capacity.

Killing oil, without first creating an alternative energy source (equally as abundant and affordable), kills the economy because our economy depends on cheap abundant energy. When you kill oil without a replacement, the price of energy goes up, contributing greatly to the inflation problem we've experienced under Biden. Also, "dumping trillions of dollars on the streets" (printing too much currency, creating debt) is highly inflationary. Some of it i'm sure is price gouging as well, but none of these are mutually exclusive.. all causes occurred simultaneously and gave us record high inflation.