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Linda Bonvie's avatar

Thanks Bill. This thing started as a six hundred word piece about an incident in indonesia! On the flip side we're probably safe from alien invasion after what humans have done to the earth.

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Brooke Dalton Folino's avatar

Remember way back when Al Gore was screaming at us The oceans are rising! In ten years NYC wil be under water The polar ice caps are melting ! The sky is falling Climate change will kill us all if we don't reduce co2 in our atmosphere (btw co2 is what plant need to survive and in return they give us oxygen so we can survive)

And so the push to create a vehicle that doesn't need that nasty dirty petroleum to run and the electric car was born and the Greenies rejoiced, until now

Now we learn that all the elements and rare earth metals needed to build the perfect EV will annihilate the us from below by regurgitating all the pollutants from the bowels of the earth because we need to feed the monster we were told would save us

The Brothers Grimm couldn't have conceived of a more frightening tale So here we are in this fresh he'll now what do we do? I'll wait✋️

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Fred S. Hayes's avatar

Fabulous work! Russians could simply use modern methods to scrub roasting exhaust gases. (The SOx is captured and converted to elemental molten sulfur by the Claus catalytic process.. the sulfur can be stored or used to make fertilizer like is done everywhere else around the world and the emissions are very clean.)

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Alfie's avatar

Excellent reporting. Like the NY Times when it was a real paper.

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Bill Thompson's avatar

Investigative journalism at its very best. You should offer college credits to anyone who reads your work! Compliments aside, what a depressing exposé. To further darken my mood, I just read about the catastrophic acid spill at the Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia. Wondering when natural selection will kick in...

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glmcclure's avatar

BIG$ is the root of all evil, including this. And the rest of us pay the toll.

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Linda Bonvie's avatar

I know, but we all live on the same planet!

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Pony Wisdom's avatar

Eventually, we will need to power mobility from sources that do not derive from petroleum, but batteries are not a sustainable solution to that problem. Right now, governments should invest into developing truly environmentally friendly solutions, instead of wasting resources to subsidize the nolutions of battery EVs intermittently powered by the boondoggles of wind and solar.

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