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1. Shaun Browne on May 25, 2022 at 8:23 am

   If I read this article correctly, I am much better off if I:
   1. Keep, maintain, and limit the use of my petroleum powered car, thereby reducing emissions, eliminating use of rare earth materials, and reducing the need for electric vehicle infrastructure.
   2. Continue to live in neighbourhoods where cars are not required, for any reason, including weekly visits to the grocery store.
   3. Search for, utilize, and celebrate every non-battery powered innovation, for transportation, including walking, cycling, car sharing, or other alternatives.

   We have enjoyed this lifestyle for 26 years now, and will continue to do so.

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2. Carolyn Emms on May 25, 2022 at 8:50 am

   We are Rainforest Reserves Australia and we are witnessing first hand the desecration of North Queensland’s highest biodiversity of State National and global significance. These projects, Australia’s greatest assets are adjacent to Wet Tropics World Heritage Parks, Catchment areas of the Great Barrier Reef and on the Great Dividing range. Cultural Heritage will disappear and our priceless wildlife including the Greater Gliders and Koalas are looking down the barrel of extinction. We are only a little organisation and including the wider community including the Jirrbal custodians are being trampled. We’ve held 5 events and no one wants this. 81 new proposals just discovered! They take our money, extract and exploit. It’s unconscionable.

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3. ed on May 26, 2022 at 1:10 am

   excellent exposure of the ‘green energy utopia’
   as idiotically dancing on a Yellow Gold Brick road to the
   Magical Emerald Electric City…just Over the Rainbow….
   The source of our problem is Consumption by all of Us wastrel consumers–
   -not fantastic dreams of ‘free’ energy sources……
   in short—-realizing that
   ‘We—silly Munchkins all– have met the Enemy…..and it is…..Us.’

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4. Eberhard Wolff on May 29, 2022 at 4:49 am

   A todos estos problemas relacionados con el auto eléctrico y las energías verdes, se sumará el problema energético de grandes dimensiones . Los vehículos terrestres que consumen Diesel y gasolina, requieren por ejemplo en Alemania más energía que se produce de energía eléctrica en todo el país para el mismo periodo. No hay modo de generar tal cantidad de energía con renovables durante esta década, ni durante la siguiente. Un número para Alemania es de cerca de 500 Terawatthoras para 2021, generadas con centrales hidráulicas, termoeléctricas, nucleares etc.. La única solución es, como bien se dijo, reducir drásticamente el uso de los vehículos, tanto terrestres, marítimos y aéreos. Y debemos empezar ya – lo debemos a nuestros hijos, porque las generaciones posguerra somos las que originamos este desastre climático.

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5. Deborah Andrew on May 31, 2022 at 5:00 am

   I am incredibly encouraged by this and the previous article. Knowing that those who have followed Local Futures are now learning the truth about ‘clean energy’ and ‘renewables’ that are not renewable or benign gives me hope.

   Added reading/viewing: “Green Illusions, The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Futures of Environmentalism” by Ozzie Zehner (he has co-produced two films with Michael Moore on the subject). ‘Bright Green Lies” by Derrik Jensen. Others have written as well. But the public is unaware of the facts and when I have shared an annotated list with officials, I get no response. A tragedy in the making. Perhaps this will be the slight shift needed for a new understanding of what would be wise responses, locally.

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6. Len on May 31, 2022 at 10:45 am

   Astonishing that your article is based on a report by the IEA, an organisation run by corporations and fossil fuel magnates. The study you refer to is clearly biased in favour of ICE cars, exactly what the oil companies want us to use. The stats given are unsourced without references to any studies, let alone peer review studies. It’s interesting to see that so many blogs like yours are jumping on the bandwagon of destructive mining, a perspective driven by the fossil fuel companies who are happy to demonise any form of mining other than coal, gas and oil, assume that no recycling is or will be done, and that all the batteries that will be running our electric future will be made from the same components as those of today. The biggest elephant in the room is overpopulation, a subject that seems to be taboo. Do you drive an ICE car? Do you fly? Do you heat your home with fossil fuels?

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   • Carlos Zorrilla on June 6, 2022 at 9:20 am

     Hmmm,,,

     Reread as unbiased as possible and get back to me. I do not own a car, do not believe gas-powered vehicles are the answer, but a worse response is more consumption of very limited resources which will compound the climate crisis. Perhaps I was not clear enough.

     I say earmark the mineral resources to replace all coal and diesel-powered electric generations and all fossil fueled mass transit, and then, and ONLY THEN, direct them to private vehicles. But all the car manufacturers know there won’t be enough minerals left over if this plan is implemented.

     Directing the scarce key minerals to private vehicles is incredibly unethical at this stage, and will only make a small dent in reducing the carbon footprint of our insane species.

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7. Jacqueline van Heerden on May 31, 2022 at 4:35 pm

   Thank you for this information – most valuable – will write about it in my next local newspaper article. So good to have this information out there. Thank you for what you are doing.

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8. Lee on July 4, 2022 at 8:14 pm

   Hopefully the world will eventually wake up. Green energy will not solve the problems, we need to reduce our consumption of all resources. Manufacturing electric vehicles requires as many resources as petrol ones. The popular environmental movement is somehow convincing people that simply changing to ‘green’ energy will solve our problems, as they know well that telling people to return to a basic lifestyle won’t win them any supporters. Well done for trying to unveil the truth.

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9. Dr. Purushottam Kale on March 2, 2023 at 12:36 am

   A real eye opener. The myth of “green energy” has properly been busted. Though not discussed at length, hydrogen cell electric vehicles too consume much more power for generating oxygen.
   The best solution is to reduce the needs. Only what is absolutely essential should purchased so that manufacturing will slow down and so will be the carbon emission.

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