gurgelblaster
gurgelblaster t1_j682x7l wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905
I agree that building and maintaining infrastructure is harder in a country that has been (and is still being) continually looted by (primarily western) capital for the last century or so.
gurgelblaster t1_j67zhfz wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905
I encourage you to read upthread for the context of my first post.
gurgelblaster t1_j67y6us wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905
Sure building buses with batteries that are not possible to procure is much more realistic than implementing a system which has been used globally for something like a century.
gurgelblaster t1_j67v3mh wrote
Reply to comment by Suthek in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905
Yes I agree that more economic planning would improve things.
gurgelblaster t1_j67t9iw wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905
Roads, famously, are not infrastructure and require no maintenance.
gurgelblaster t1_j67m7y4 wrote
Reply to comment by chin-ki-chaddi in Kenya’s Producing Its First Electric Buses — 1,000 Buses Over 3 Years by Peugeot905
This is why you build catenaries and overhead lines and have small or no batteries.
gurgelblaster t1_jalh9vl wrote
Reply to comment by AGVann in German scientists show a commercially feasible method for cyanobacteria to extract 17 rare earth elements from low-concentration sources. Currently, most of the world's supply of these elements is mined in China. by lughnasadh
> So what can we do? The realities of this field can be depressing as fuck and I've often had people ask me this. For the average person, I recommend two things: Do the best you can for your conscience, and sometimes the best we can do is to mitigate. This is the reality we're facing now in everything climate and pollution related. We can't stop it. We have to start preparing to deal with it in other ways.
We can, though, but it requires political organising and active political will, and if enough people pour their energy into those pursuits (i.e. towards circular economies, sustainable societal infrastructure, global solidarity, and anti-capitalist and green socialist political movements) that's going to have an outsized impact. Most of all, we need to drop the pretense that individual action from relatively poor people, even in rich countries, is going to have an impact. Stop the private jets, luxury fast fashion and superyachts and you've a good start going, both because of the direct impact of those industries, but also because that kind of action has symbolic value: your money doesn't protect you, and doesn't mean that you are not responsible and can't be held accountable. Rather the opposite in fact.
Sure, if you can be politically active and do the small-scale individualist consumer-power thing as well, that's good, but only through collective, political, direct action, are we truly going to get anywhere.