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Ronald Stein: Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities.

Ronald Stein: Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities.

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David Blackmon
Apr 23, 2024
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Energy Transition Absurdities
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Ronald Stein: Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities.
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While wind and solar do not emit carbon dioxide, there are substantial environmental degradations and humanity atrocities occurring in China, Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The materials for EV batteries and to produce electricity from wind turbines and solar panels, require large scale mining of critical minerals and metals, many of which are mined and refined in countries like China and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where human rights violations against miners are common and environmental protections are limited.

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Environmentalists’ tunnel vision just toward the wealthier countries on this planet that can afford the cost of regulations for the environmental movement to large batteries for electric cars, trucks, buses, and for electricity to be generated occasionally by wind turbines and solar panels, is tunnel vision that is hypocritical, unethical, and immoral.

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