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The only reason the technologies appear not to be working/address the problems caused by fossil fuels is simple: these technologies are being blocked by governments, withheld by corporations, principally because they have too much invested in fossil fuel extraction and usage and are making shitloads of money from it. The all electric car is minimally utilised on this account; battery technology exists at much greater levels of efficiency than has been revealed, solar tech based on perovskite cells is maybe 25-40% more efficient than can be bought by the man in the street. I could go on and on. All these technologies and more are being prevented from usage/entrainment, because goverments and corporations have too much invested elsewhere and too much to lose. And don’t get me started on medicine and public health: the same considerations apply as those outlined above. The big contradiction is this: it’s not possible to have a practical, realisable, environmental policy framework, without enforceable population management policies and frameworks. Then we get to the root of all these issues:education. Education in the US, UK and elsewhere is designed to turn out compliant, easily managed consumers, who can be fed a diet of pap by the media, so that they can be ‘played’ at every turn, whatever the needs of the hour, whatever the needs of the ruling class at any point in time. Reality TV? That’s the last thing it is; rather it’s an important cog in the anaesthetisation of the population at large, so that they become receptive to and stay on message, whatever that happens to be. By and large the foregoing article accurately summarises where we are and where we’re headed, but it’s not because the means for alternatives don’t exist: it’s because, as a matter of policy, they’re not available.
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