Are you confident that alternate energy generation of renewable energy will scale up quickly enough to make a difference? Or that appropriate fuel efficiency standards on automobiles will be imposed in the years just ahad? Do you expect to drive an e-vehicle soon?
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While confident may not be the word, I am more hopeful, that alternative energy sources will help make a difference. If not a big difference at least to help slow down the damage. I understand that our current alternative energy systems still aren’t perfect, but at this point I see it as what does the least amount of damage, while other people, such as our “leaders” see it as what is the least expensive and produces the most profit. When it comes to fuel efficiency standards, I once again hope that those will be imposed. This is mainly due to the fact that while we know there are still kinks in the system, e-vehicles are overall a better option for the environment. Yes the topic of batteries is still a little controversial, but they are currently working on a better solution. As for myself, I am currently still on my first car and plan to drive it till the wheels fall off, but my goal and hope is to be able to drive an e-vehicle as soon as I can. Overall I get that it may not make that big of a difference, but until our leadership acknowledges climate change and actually tries to figure out ways to do something about it, I am going to do what I can.
When it comes to our “leaders” and their relationship to climate change, I honestly think it mainly comes down to the topic of money. Our current system makes so much money and some people are having great success and profiting more than they could have imagined, but at what cost? In their minds, implementing a new system would cost too much and too many people would lose their jobs. But what they are not seeing is that with a new system comes new jobs, maybe even more jobs that do not even exist yet, but can exist within a new system. Or maybe the new system will be even more successful than the current. Overall, I believe that in their minds (or wallets) the system isn’t broken so they don’t need to fix it.
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I completely agree and i think it is important that you pointed out how much of a negative influence money has had on american politics. Being so focused on the stocks and profits of their corporate donors, and their own stocks within these companies, how can they possibly have time for the people they are meant to represent? Our leaders can only think short term, and by leaders i mean the rich who actually control this country. Their quarterly profits are all that matter so looking into something long term such as investing in a completely new system seems stupid to them. Even though this change would probably be better for the economy in the long run, they can't think past their short term profits. This can also apply to our current situation, if only we would have done the right thing from the beginning and stopped the spread of covid early on our economy would not be in the pits of hell that it is in right now. But because they were so worried about their shares and pleasing board members, we've extended the problem.
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