Do policymakers who enact laws that will require 43% of new cars and light-duty trucks to be electric models by 2026 and 82% by 2032 know about EVs' severe fire hazards? Have they read IEEE's "The EV Transition Explained", which reports that charging EVs overheats transformers and shortens their 30- to 40-year lifespan to three years?
To stop ravaging the Earth
To stop ravaging the Earth, we've got to stop ravaging the Earth.
Let's have forums about reducing production, reducing consumption and reducing toxic waste.
Let's build topsoil, grow more food, make cities walkable, increase public transportation, build conflict resolution skills, raise children without an electronic interface and celebrate people who live on less.
Let's turn empty houses into homes where questions are welcome.
Closing notes
Here's a provocative essay (first posted in 2019) from Max Wilbert: "When the Lights Go Out: Dreaming of a power outage that lasts forever."
After posting my map of the conflict in Gaza, a reader corrected me: I should have reported that the 1948 creation of Israel left 750,000 Palestinians without a home and a large proportion of them were Christian.
Several readers wrote appreciatively of the link to Gabor Mate''s video. So, I send another one, this October 28 interview with his daughter, Hannah.
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