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6. Yes launching a Tesla car with a mannequin into space is definitely indicative of concern...
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:35 PM
Oct 2019

for Earth's species, with the possible exception of the homo sapiens who come after us.

His car depends on enslaved children digging cobalt in the DRC.

The electricity to charge it is largely generated by dangerous fossil fuels, in a highly questionable thermodynamic shell game. There's plenty of literature on both the social and environmental costs of electric cars, and the absurd fantasy that a car can be "green."

I don't buy it; he's just another rich asshole inflating himself. Most of those who worship him are decidedly bourgeois and in general completely unaware of what is happening in the world of ethics.

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