Posted on 11/10/2021 9:28:17 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
Governments and car manufacturers have coalesced at the Glasgow climate talks around new targets to drastically ramp up the use of electric vehicles. But activists at the summit have urged a more fundamental question – what if we just gave up all types of cars?
With the new goal of phasing out new sales of gasoline and diesel cars within 20 years, dozens of countries and car companies have used Cop26 to extol the rise of electric vehicles as a way to slash planet-heating emissions.
Related: Cop26: carmakers agree to end sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040
“This is a massive transformation,” said Omar Alghabra, transport minister for Canada, one of the 24 countries to sign on to the new pledge. Alghabra spoke on Wednesday on a panel of government officials and business leaders in the vast Glasgow convention centre, a multicolored Envision formula-E race car perched in the foreground on a podium. “We see this as a massive opportunity for job creation,” he added.
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Let’s just all volunteer to become serfs locked to the local Lord’s land.
We won’t have to.
There won’t be any to give up..........................
What if cop26 leaders gave up oxygen instead?
you first
let us know how it goes
That’s great for NYC and Copenhagen. Those in Montana and Kentucky might have a different viewpoint.
How about yachts and private planes while we’re at it?!?
What if we just gave up mansions, million-dollar penthouses, and private airplanes?
It’s all Fairy Dust and Unicorns for all.
“In the technocratic fantasy mindset, all that matters is the electricity that recharges the electric vehicle is “carbon-free.” The sources and quantities of energy required to fabricate the electric vehicle, pave the roads the vehicle travels on, etc. are conveniently ignored because the metals, plastics, glass, semiconductors, batteries, etc. needed to manufacture the vehicle require vast quantities of diesel fuel to power the mining equipment, transport the ore to be processed, then transported to the mills, then on to the factory, etc., vast quantities of coal to fire the smelting, vast quantities of fresh water for all these processes, vast quantities https://www.oftwominds.com/blognov21/scarcity11-21.htmlof electricity, very little of which is derived from nuclear or so-called renewable sources (all of which have to be replaced every 15 to 20 years), and so on......(MORE)”
https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
Give up cars? As long as we can fly our personal drones, heck yeah.
What if we destroyed the auto and petroleum industries to achieve the same goal?
Freedom of movement is perceived as a threat by he elite. No surprise they’d like to limit it!
The word “activist” has become a major insult. These people pretend to be of superior breeding and intellect when they are in reality nothing but grifters and shysters.
What they mean is that we give up cars but they keep their limos, yachts, and jets.
The elites see us as resource pigs, consuming their resources. They want us dead.
You’ll give up cars. And, be happy about it.
Lets do it. Everyone.
Lead by example and walk home. Or, if you need to, walk to the nearest boat dock, sail back to wherever your home country is and then start walking once you reach dry land, again. But, if you do sail, you have to make sure the boat and sail that you’re using were made without using any kind of machinery that relied on fossil fuels or electricity. So, basically, your boat will be made of wood that was chopped down by hand, using an axe made from ore that you dug out of the ground and melted down in your crude forge. Sail was made from cotton you grew in a field, milled and wove yourself. Or you could just row yourself home, but same principles are boat and oar building apply.
Gonna take a while to get home.
Everyone at that conference should give up their cars, airplanes, and electricity—and leave the rest of us alone!
I love walking but I aint walking that far:-)
As long as we’re thinking big, how about if we get rid of federal governments?
Huge cost savings in terms tax, regulatory, and pay burden.
What if you give up private jets first?
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