I find it interesting when people argue about the amount of additional mining that would be required to transition everybody on to EVs.
I think the problem with that line of thinking is the assumption that they want to replace ALL current cars with electric. They don't. They want to drastically (by 95% or more) reduce the number of cars available. EVs simply do not make sense as individual transport for the masses, the infrastructure requirements are incredible. They will use "mass market" EVs as a means to cease, and outlaw, the production and use of ICE vehicles. Once ICE vehicles have been removed, a new "emergency" will occur, in which they "realize" that the number of EVs is not sustainable, rationing will commence and it will be harder and harder to obtain a "license" to even use one, let alone buy one.
Instead, they want the vast majority of the population (that survives) confined within large cities where they will be restricted to only a small part of that city. Zones with minimal overlap will be created, ensuring that people living in one part of the city cannot get organic information about what is happening in other parts, they will be reliant on heavily censored and likely totally fabricated "official" information. A technological dystopian prison, one in which you can live a superficially happy life, as long as you have no desire for freedom and never question the actions of the "leaders"
I agree.
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