naturalplastic wrote:
But maybe that's an upside to Brexit. Britain can tell its Sixty million folks what to drive more easily than it can influence Brussels to tell the 500 million folks in all of Europe what to drive. And if it causes unemployment its German unemployment, and not British unemployment.
More power to them (no pun intended) if they can do it.
If it was being done solely in the interests of dealing with climate change and sustainability, in a way that was in the best interests of the vast majority of people, I'd go along with that. I'd have even considered voting to leave the EU if it made us more adaptable to deal with those issues. But this is none of that. It's about power and money, and done in the interests of a tiny minority. If there is any concern for the environment, or our long-term survival, it's one where the very rich survive and the rest of us are expendable. Electric cars are a bandwagon everyone is jumping on because it's spun as being "green", and some people can make money out of it.
Dealing with the problems we face is far more complex than swapping internal combustion engines for electric motors and continuing business as usual. They probably are a part of the solution, but it's not a one size fits all solution.
08 Feb 2020, 8:33 am
for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.
