Fossil Gas Corporations Need To Suck Our Minds Into The Mirror Universe

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A current article at Forbes stories on an terrible state of affairs: renewed makes an attempt to sabotage the EV market. Identical to the unique Who Killed The Electrical Automotive? second, we’re seeing makes an attempt to derail and intestine EVs in order that entrenched pursuits can maintain being profitable.

Whereas a number of the writing about the issue is sensational (blaming Mr. Bean for the whole lot), there may be nonetheless lots of unhealthy info circulating about EVs. Not solely have we seen issues with outright misinformation and disinformation, we’re additionally seeing governments act on that disinformation as if it had been verifiable truth. Like every public coverage, when the general public turns into misinformed and elects individuals who agree with that unhealthy info, the tip result’s piss poor coverage.

And notice that I didn’t say unhealthy. I mentioned piss poor, like within the film Armageddon. We will name a coverage unhealthy if it causes some short-term struggling or requires a number of billion {dollars} to wash up after it. However, when the destiny of humanity hangs within the steadiness and persons are deliberately doing stuff mistaken to make a fast buck or collect some meaningless political energy for one human lifetime, piss poor won’t even cowl it.

It’s mentioned that hydrogen is the gas of the long run, and at all times might be. Should you get what I did there, you get it. If not, I’ve to elucidate that it’s form of like “mañana” in New Mexico. Tomorrow by no means comes as a result of tomorrow is at all times the following day. It’s like when a person’s spouse asks when he’s going to take the trash out or repair that leaky faucet: “Quickly.”

Whereas the world struggles with charging infrastructure (it is a actual downside!), hydrogen is doing something however using in for the rescue. Not solely is constructing out hydrogen infrastructure tougher (electrical energy is already nearly in all places whereas hydrogen wants a duplication of gasoline and diesel infrastructure), however the challenges are proving to be an excessive amount of. Corporations in all places are closing down hydrogen fueling stations and leaving drivers stranded.

So, when individuals say that the automotive world is pulling again from EVs, they’re telling you a story from the mirror universe the place Spock and Kirk and all people has a goatee and the Enterprise is a ship that goes round committing unspeakable acts of genocide and terror. The great guys are the unhealthy guys and the unhealthy guys are the great guys. Oil firms are successful, and clear vitality is dropping.

However, that is about extra than simply pulling the wool over our eyes or plugging our brains into The Matrix of Evil. The implications are very actual. If they will get us to imagine that the unhealthy guys are successful, the way forward for humanity won’t be very cheery and vivid. As a substitute of occurring to be a drive for good within the cosmos, we’ll be fortunate to depart the planet and would grow to be a galactic illness if we pull that off by some means.

The very fact is that renewables and EVs put the individuals in cost. It provides an opportunity for individuals to make particular person choices that add as much as a greater future. It’s a type of democracy. However, if we allow them to idiot us into pondering that hydrogen is successful after which go make it win, then the fossil gas firms get to greenwash their operations and maintain the vitality markets trying extra like a centralized oligarchy.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that it is a selection between the world individuals like Putin and Xi need and the world that the remainder of us could be proud of. So, it’s no shock that the sort of people that assist the Putins of the world are so busy attempting to suck our minds into that mirror universe.

Featured picture: the emblem for Star Trek’s Terran Empire, an evil imaginative and prescient for the way forward for humanity that exists in a parallel universe. Honest Use, Commentary.