Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "“People vs. Fossil Fuels”: Over 530 Arrested in Historic Indigenous-Led Climate Protests in D.C." video.

  1. Personally I am of the opinion that the people who are more or less forcing the traditional automakers to go EV and are developing the physical potential of green energy, have done far more than all the environmental protestors put together. Actually doing something viable and positive that is physically transformative . . . not so easy as talk. Like Sting sang, "There is no political solution. . . ." Any so-called political solution will be co-opted, lobbied and well "corrupted" into ineffectual window dressing that is really only a path to political power for those of the same bent as those they criticize but in a different "key, like in the progressive key instead of the regressive one we now tolerate to an amazing degree: like frogs in a slowly warming pot that will eventually boil. The solution is to make the most gross sources of environmental degradation economically nonviable (and this is being done quite rapidly, though certainly not as rapidly as it would be if the current pending legislation were objective and not just a political ploy to subsidize unions and other political entities instead of the most viable engineering of the desired clean energy transformation) -- or we can continue, to do the same thing over and over, while expecting a new outcome. I have to quote whoever it was who said, "The lesson of history is that humanity does not learn from the lessons of history." . . . or something to that effect. We could, but this can only come about after a total reform of how political campaigns are financed. We can only really begin to proceed if all private funding of politics is disallowed by law. I know this, you know this, even John McKane knew this and still crickets. I know it's boring but campaign finance is the lynch pin of all the presently legalized forms of corruption that have been normalized in the last half century. It is the glue that holds together the nasty melange we presently suffer.
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  2. ​ @patricialongo5746  Your misunderstanding of what I wrote is so epic that I find it hard to believe that you even read it before you responded. I hardly think that GM, who I refer to as "a traditional automaker" in my statement, and who is now being dragged along kicking and screaming into the green energy age is an example of what I am referring to. They are the opposite of an innovative and ethical company like Tesla. But that is were you had to go, because that is were your argument makes any sense at all. Even so, one recall is near meaningless, especially when it is totally outdated technology. And change is bigger than that. All Tesla models are sold out for the entire year. Tesla is opening two new factories, one in Texas and one in Germany. The largest factories in the world. Change will not come about by protests or political means, that has been tried over and over. Change is happening now, and it is massive and these protests are like sentimental artifacts of a bygone age. Though I am all for the protestors themselves, if they don't have the means or education to make real contributions they can pose for photo ops to shut down pipelines. They shut down one and two pop up somewhere else. It is ineffective, and will always be overcome by backroom deals and various stratagems of the power elite until they start losing money because they backed a fossil fuel horse that is losing the race and losing them money.
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