Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "DiEM25"
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I'd agree. Our whole way of life and employment has to be done over, real purposeful jobs have to be created above all else
In regards to tech, you gotta look around (on the internet at least - it ain't easy). There are many channels for years that highlight the fact that there are solutions today but the lack of political will keeps them confined and delayed by market and monopolistic/competitive pressures. Just Have A Think is one of them, Transport Evolved is another. The century old base load supply is a big issue, ramping up gas peaker plants for daily demand spikes is one of the most glaring, and wasting all that stored steam energy in the night.
There are too many solutions to count because this issue turned crisis has been ongoing for decades. These solutions all point to dissolving Neoliberalism by means of providing society with resources and work that rehabilitate nature instead of exploiting jt. Some of the solutions are democratised energy production of on site, local/community owned generation that's collectively owned instead of relying on giant electricity providers whose business is to trade packages/stocks of megawatt hours across the European grid for a return in profit. Ireland's 1999 Electricity Regulation Act is one example, which was just the creation of a free market stage advertised that consumers will have choice.
There's employing static battery storage (not just lithium) that can eliminate that demand curve for sizeable towns. Hell, every electric car sold since 2010 is capable of supplying electricity to a home or grid during those peak hours (or blackout), something that already existing hardware and software can enable; but automakers are not forced to make that commercially viable unless they want to make consumers think they want it.
Automakers are not even compelled to retrofit older vehicles with modern emission compliant engines because that would completely interfere with their business model. There's a retrofit company called Transition One in France that is being certified to retrofit old city cars (Fiat 500 Renault Twingo) into electric cars for €5000-7500. City cars that are no longer viable in the year 2022 to 2027 because of shrinking profit margins. If there was a political will to dismiss market interests their operations should be sponsored and expanded across every member state in a war-time like effort.
Creating a single charger for mobile devices seems to be the most proactive achievement the EU has made yet. Acutely because of Russia's war in Ukraine financed by the oil industry has there been new life breathed into renewable energy and energy independence, which is shameless.
That's where the incompetency of European politics lies, fake political will, it's all in the service of capital, market interests and domestic competition - something that the Chinese are today more advanced in.
To summarize, the EPP have slept walked is into disaster by trying to perpetuate Margaret Thatcher's supermarket.
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