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Patrick Ophuls: "Energy, Politics, and The Future"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Automobile, the Primary Automobile Is an Ecological Disaster
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The automobile is an ecological disaster, probably the greatest mass to spoiler resources and human welfare on the planet. But if governments were to try to force people out of their cars by taxis, fees or fiat, they're going to react like Charleston, Heston. And politicians would be besieged by pedestrian peasants. It will come to that because the automobile is so central now to people's identity and welfare for good or for ill. Unfortunately, we're not going to bite the ecological bullet. We're going to keep the automobile running, we're going to do it on batteries. That's what I call electrifying the Titanic. You keep on doing the stupid and foolish thing that you were doing,
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