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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Tesla: The car you buy when a Prius is insufficient to convey your pretentiousness.
Elon Musk gets his billions straight from US taxpayers.
Nice scam if you can get it.
Go get some more free government money, Oleon.
IT IS PLANT FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so sick, not only of the Charlatans who puke this stuff up daily, but the MORONS who believe it!!!
Didn’t he get the memo? We are to understand that today’s refugee problem is due to climate change, just like every other problem.
Hey Elon, I’ll give you 50 cents on the dollar for your waterfront property.
That was my first thought. I like what Musk is doing in the space industry, but he is letting everyone know he is willing to play ball.
Obama and his cronies and setting up for the Paris Global Warming party
Climate change is a hoax.
But I do think we haven’t been doing much planning for fresh water resources in regard to population growth. And that could bite us.
Billsh!t. Not aimed at you, 2nd.
Of course it’s plant food,my corn and soybeans were gobbling it up like there was no tomorrow.How is it that people have so little understanding of the food cycle?No Co2 equals no food,we’re all dead inside of a year.
Hop on board your rocket ship and fly away then.
Well, that says all you need to know about him.
Screw that statist crap he stands for.
(sells electric cars)
How much Carbon does his factory need to operate? Maybe he should close the business to keep the climate happy.
“Elon Musk gets his billions straight from US taxpayers.
Nice scam if you can get it.”
Welfare billionaire.
Do we actually have an example of “climate change” anywhere?
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