The American Left’s zero emissions climate goals are not much different than shipping all your plastic garbage to Asia. We do it and pretend it’s recycling, then try to ban straws or bags here when they throw them in the ocean. It’s offshoring, and with Electric vehicles, we are just offshoring emissions, but it’s worse.
Most of the stuff required to satisfy the progressive zero-emission fantasy comes from someplace else or is manufactured offshore. The zero-emission transportation dream is literally in the hands of our enemies, emitting a lot more than they would care to admit.
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The thousand-pound emissions gorilla in the room is the “Transfer of environmental burdens from the use phase to the raw materials extraction and manufacturing phases entails a delocalisation of the impacts, which constitutes a new challenge at environmental, social, and legal levels.”
Published in Science Direct, from The Journal of Cleaner Production, the report is titled the “Comparative life cycle assessment of conventional, electric and hybrid passenger vehicles in Spain.” And it claims that,
“current and future energy scenario predictions show that electric vehicles will produce an increase in fine particulate matter formation (26%), human carcinogenic (20%) and non-carcinogenic toxicity (61%), terrestrial ecotoxicity (31%), freshwater ecotoxicity (39%), and marine ecotoxicity (41%) relative to petrol vehicles.”
Suppose you take everything from rare-earth metal mining through production, use, and end of life. In that case, Electric vehicles are worse for the global environment if emissions reduction is good for the environment. I think there’s plenty more to say about that (which emissions, for example), but to the self-proclaimed masters of the Green Universe, it’s all talk. Offshoring “toxicity” is the locus of their environmentalism.
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Vermont is ready to collapse its economy so it can claim to have achieved zero emissions. But that’s not possible. And it looks like a few folks are beginning to see that. Even the lie has become unaffordable. Without buy-in from other New England states and an endless flow of federal dollars (which will make inflation and the project more expensive), it can’t even be approached.
Not every state can taste that crap sandwich. California is all in on raping its populace and future generations, on the assumption the Feds will keep laundering money to feed this addiction to stupid. Their EV mandate, followed by restrictions on charging them, is a joke with an unpleasant punchline. Even the radical environmentalists know that the carbon they need to reduce is you. Zero emissions are just a PR stunt to walk us back a few centuries (not them us) to achieve a different goal.
Control.
And they’ll crap all over the environment to get it and keep it, especially when they can do it in someone else’s backyard and pretend to be doing good.
HT | WUWT
