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> Moving to electric cars also hurts the environment a lot, maybe not in the countries that buy the cars but in the countries where the materials are mined.

Well mines are not pretty. I have gold and coal mines not far from here, and they are ugly.

Go to Biafra and see what the oil industries look like to those places. AN oil spill in an estuary makes a mine look like a park.

> It seems very difficult to stop climate change, i would say impossible, because socially, politically and economically we have built machine that cant be stopped anymore.

Either we stop it, derail it, or burn it down completely. Or we all burn, and it will be worse.



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