Sometimes you have to destroy the village to save the village and sometimes you have to kill the gorillas to make it possible for dot com execs to drive luxury electric cars… to save the planet.
Mining for EVs, batteries could wipe out 1/3 of African great apes
A third of Africa’s gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees are at risk because they live in areas that overlap with mining operations for metals critical to the global clean energy transition.
Nearly 180,000 great apes in Africa are under threat as mining activities drive deforestation, according to a study published on Wednesday in Science Advances.
It’s okay. I’m sure the apes will understand.
Their sacrifice will make it possible for government employees in bedroom communities in Fairfax, VA to commute to work in a luxury SUV EV to D.C. where they can then figure out how to raise costs on the middle class even more.
It’s a beautiful evolutionary cycle of life in which gorillas must die to make way for Teslas. Every time a chimpanzee dies, a Rivian will roar and when a bonobo goes down, a Mercedes with one of those logo lights in the door handles that sounds like a spaceship will emerge on the showroom floor.
Environmentalists used to think that we had to protect nature. Then they stopped protecting nature and focused on their true love, destroying affordability of consumer good and services for the working class and middle class.
Going green now means taking away shopping bags, gas stoves, and cars. And also killing gorillas.
But to paraphrase the great New York Times journalist Walter Duranty, “You can’t make green energy without killing gorillas.”
And since the environmentalists are saving the planet for the gorillas by killing the gorillas to make electric cars, it’s all in a good cause.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/save-the-planet-kill-the-gorillas