Hier kun je discussieren over electric charging stations sabotaged around Amsterdam.
The shift to electric vehicles that is being promoted by governments across Europe and the car companies that these states subsidize is part of this thinly veiled attempt to recuperate the climate catastrophe called capitalism. There is nothing sustainable about an electric car. Every step in the global supply chain that ships an electric vehicle made in the United States to our doorstep in Amsterdam involves the exploitation of workers and the destruction of the planet. The mining of minerals for the battery alone is an incredibly destructive process. Lithium extracted in Chile contaminates local water sources, cobalt mined in the Congo involves child labor, and nickel dug out in Indonesia leaches heavy metals into the ocean. Not to mention the steel, titanium, aluminum, and plastic needed for the body of the car. These raw materials are in short supply and the scramble by states and corporations to secure access is fueling a new wave of colonialism across the global south.
Once our car has been shipped half way across the world we can sit in traffic on our way to work with a clean conscience knowing that there is no co2 that is being pumped out of our exhaust pipe. Except that the energy to power the electric charging stations has to come from somewhere and in the Netherlands as in almost every other country in the world more than half of this energy still comes from fossil fuels. The growing renewable energy sector faces the same polluting problems as the manufacture of an electric vehicle: the batteries needed to store energy are anything but clean and the transport and manufacture of energy infrastructure is incredibly resource intensive. By switching to supposedly renewable alternatives we are simply outsourcing the environmental devastation required to maintain our ever growing energy supply to poorer parts of the world.
That’s why last night we sabotaged a dozen electric charging stations around Amsterdam by filling their charging ports with construction foam. These stations are owned by TotalEnergies, one of the seven super major oil companies. No amount of greenwashing can clean a company that’s been polluting the earth for a hundred years.
Sabotage capitalist normality.
So this article was written
So this article was written on a typewriter?
You live without electricity? Solar panels and wind turbines are no better than the "greenwashing electric car technology" you are describing..
Send by carrier pigeon.
Send by carrier pigeon.
Comparing the energy used by
Comparing the energy used by a laptop against the production and operation of an electric vehicle is like comparing a slingshot to an atomic weapons (yes i exaggerate to get the point across). The one doesn't leave any noticeable trace while the other is actively destroying the planet. If you spend your energy looking into what people mean instead of writing sassy comments you must know that the publishers of this article are not against the concept of electricity.