Posted on 09/30/2015 4:07:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tesla's CEO says the Volkswagen scandal is minor compared with carbon dioxide emissions.
Elon Musk, co-founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors, warned on Thursday that climate change will spark a refugee crisis of catastrophic proportions if no action is taken.
In a speech in Berlin, the Tesla chief executive said Europe's current wave of people seeking asylum, prompted mostly by political violence, will be dwarfed as fresh water becomes scarce, food supplies become insecure and weather changes in the coming decades.
"Today's refugee problem is perhaps a small indication of what the future will be like if we do not take action with respect to climate change," Musk told an audience at Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. "Today, the challenge is in terms of millions of people, but in the future, based on what the scientific consensus is, the problem will be in the hundreds of millions and much more severe."
Volkswagen's ongoing scandal over cheating on nitrogen oxide emissions tests on its diesel vehicles is a troubling, Musk said, but it's a small issue compared with the problem of overall carbon dioxide emissions.
The billionaire has devoted much of his career to reducing the use of fossil fuels....
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The only reason the refugees crisis is a crisis is because the US and EU don’t defend the borders.
I don’t think VW was around when the last “climate change” melted thousand foot deep glaciers.
Exactly.
Do not make Sant Claus angry.
Well, if the astrophysically based school of climatology is not only right but the extreme version of their predictions occurs, Musk might be, but for the wrong reasons: all the Canadians, Northern Europeans and Russians fleeing the glaciers when the new Ice Age arrives might dwarf the current crisis.
Elon.....STFU!!!!!
I usually like Musk, but not this time.
Of course, he may be taking advantage of the idiots to sell cars and batteries, but still... I don’t like it.
Most climate refugees move south to find a warmer climate.
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Elon Musk is a buffoon.
He alludes to a crisis caused by what he knows does not even exist.
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>> “No Co2 equals no food,we’re all dead inside of a year.” <<
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I think that is the plan.
That’s what that Russian research ship was doing when it encountered more ice than it could handle.
Its ice-crushed hull is a fish house now.
I thought Elon Musk was supposed to be smart?
Dwarfs will be hit hardest.
They are beautiful automobiles. Wish they came with an LS or a Coyote. They would be a real nice car then.
Pretty machine. A transverse turbo 4 would get the job done indeed.
It has a turbocharged inline 3 and an electric motor for a total of 357hp and is relatively light.
Climate Change. A 1.5 Trillion dollar industry.
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