Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 months agoTell that to the child slaves mining resources for first world consumers. Unfortunately, the citizens of less developed countries’ opinions don’t matter if their government is corrupt.
Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I would, but they probably would still mine it anyway to survive. Human history is full of people risking their lives for survival. We make the trade willingly at every turn. Diplomats can play the shame game with their governments if they want, but I’m no diplomat.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re right, so we might as well exploit those less fortunate than us because they were unlucky enough to be born where they were born.
Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I’m not exploiting them. I’m buying stuff about 6 steps down the line from their initial labor. If you let yourself be enslaved by feelings of oppression by existing in a global economy, you’ll perpetually live in the stone age.
If you want to do something about it, you’ll have to go fight a warlord or slavers or something because refusing to buy anything with a battery I just not living in the real world.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Okay, cool. I wasn’t saying you shouldn’t ever buy any batteries. I have an electric car in my driveway right now.
The whole point of what I initially said was to recognize there although one is definitely worse than the other, there are environmental costs to both ICE vehicles and EV vehicles and to reduce our carbon emissions we should focus more on being less car dependent in general.
You’ve gone off about how you don’t care about other people or your downstream effects on others and I don’t really know why I’ve engaged with this pointless conversation.