What is the total cost to consumer of the cobalt and other rate earth minerals used in tech and batteries? How much would the costs increase if mining were done humanely and in environmentally conscious ways?
Green revolution advocates do not readily explore the human and environmental costs associated with tech, solar, wind, vegetarian, dense populations, etc.
What is the total cost to consumer of the cobalt and other rate earth minerals used in tech and batteries? How much would the costs increase if mining were done humanely and in environmentally conscious ways?
Green revolution advocates do not readily explore the human and environmental costs associated with tech, solar, wind, vegetarian, dense populations, etc.
In the words of Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun. Thomas Sowell expresses it perfectly: The real cost of anything is still its value in alternative uses. By distorting the market in picking winners and losers, the government ALWAYS increases the cost of anything it touches. This is to say they raise the cost to everyone, since the government has no money, except what it takes from citizens at the point of a gun. (Don't think they do it by force? Don't pay your taxes this year.)
Yes, we will eventually drive electric vehicles; the advantages are too great to ignore, but we need to let the system work and bring us these good things in due course; all government intervention does is to make it longer, harder, and more expensive.
What is the total cost to consumer of the cobalt and other rate earth minerals used in tech and batteries? How much would the costs increase if mining were done humanely and in environmentally conscious ways?
Green revolution advocates do not readily explore the human and environmental costs associated with tech, solar, wind, vegetarian, dense populations, etc.
Green revolution advocates exist to enrich themselves or are pawns to enrich them.
In the words of Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun. Thomas Sowell expresses it perfectly: The real cost of anything is still its value in alternative uses. By distorting the market in picking winners and losers, the government ALWAYS increases the cost of anything it touches. This is to say they raise the cost to everyone, since the government has no money, except what it takes from citizens at the point of a gun. (Don't think they do it by force? Don't pay your taxes this year.)
Yes, we will eventually drive electric vehicles; the advantages are too great to ignore, but we need to let the system work and bring us these good things in due course; all government intervention does is to make it longer, harder, and more expensive.