The U.S. invented these technologies. Then China dominated them. | How the United States lost its lead in electric vehicles and other clean energy inventions.

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• lmdnw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Spoiler, the US lost the lead because its pudding-brained constituency backed anti-science demagogues that parroted their own personal bigotries. Stupid racists and religious fanatics are always the downfall of societies because they cede the power that numbers give them and fall in line behind a ruling class that doesn’t give a shit about the well being of society.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its more that the US has industrial policy to support fossil fuels over everything else. It takes active support to create new industries, and that didn’t happen

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      imagine if we’d elected bernie in 2016.

      dude was all in back then. ontheissues.org/…/Bernie_Sanders_Energy_+_Oil.htm

      we’ve wasted a decade propping up fossil fuels and squandering our leads in evs (say what you will, tesla solved the ‘electric cars aren’t good’ problem, before going to shit) and in solar and wind and now, we’re gonna double-down on the idiot path because the country let enough gerrymandering and fuckery and apathy lose to the idiot who’s cankles are about to pop.

      there might have been a moment back then… now, I think, we’re fucked.

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