GuyGadebois wrote:https://www.sauvonslaforet.org/petitions/1182/mobilite-il-faut-moins-de-voitures?mtu=438251626&t=5650
I went through the article, it is interesting. He cruelly reminds us that behind the new technologies there are poor populations who suffer to extract the necessary materials, children who are exploited to reduce costs, regions and ravaged forests to make way for mining mines.
This is a recurrent observation: for the comfort of some, the others sacrifice their health, their families and their country.
That said, to conclude that the number of cars must be reduced and that the electric car is not the solution is a half-false (or half-right) conclusion.
Admittedly there are too many cars, they pollute and imply the drifts described in the article, but today whatever the technical solution implemented to replace the all car, the politico-economic mechanisms will build on one side in destroying the other: even if we replace cars with bikes (not even electric), the construction of these bikes would cause the same deadly drifts among poor neighbors in rich countries.
It is the same with:
- food: bio-sacking of regions,
- clothing: the textile industry pollutes and exploits populations,
- waste treatment: the earth is cleaned on one side to make it more dirty on the other,
- ... etc. (soon, to reduce global warming, we will make ice in poor countries ...)
The whole system needs to be reviewed!
It is more the implementation of the solutions that poses a problem than the solutions itself!