Ep 66: Green-washing Debunk Part 3

In which I revisit unsustainable green energy, this time looking the project of harvesting our trash out of the oceans, but also the materials for not so renewable energy. I then cover how any good of electric cars are made moot by over supply of SUVs and trucks (its what makes more money) And explore how renewables alone can’t solve the problem, but press the reality that moving away from capitalism is the only ways to fix these collective problems, as markets and liberal republicanism over-sells and under delivers. The case today rests on the need for passive ecological systems and not money making active ones.
Sources

TED talk idea finally put into action after 8 years.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ocean-cleanup-collects-first-plastic-from-great-pacific-garbage-patch
Deep sea mining for metals need for Batteries
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49759626?fbclid
‘Benefits of EV cars cancelled out by the rest of car industry.
www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/surging-suv-demand-is-canceling-out-the-environmental-benefit-from-electric-cars.html
Can’t replace All Fossil Fuel use with Wind and Solar. Supply side econ needs to go.
www.resilience.org/stories/2019-11-26/it-bears-repeating-renewables-alone-wont-end-the-climate-crisis


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