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US mining industry is saying it needs 920% tariffs on Chinese graphite to make projects in North America. And oil industry will astroturf protests, and lobby, to delay the mining.

The only solution to Oil industry scheming, is nationalizing oil companies. US can't help with a sustainable climate if their power is maximized.

For mining projects, there's an absurdity to the cost and profit levels. A model to promote abundance would be cheap loans, and production subsidies, but cooperating with China, is a low investment path that can make high value EVs in the US if the batteries are cheap.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16652472

For sure, seems to be less then zero interest in any sort of reformation? People won't even wear a mask in a pandemic. Precautionary principal be damed?

To add to that https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits.

Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”

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