“We are a wave of change. Together and united, we are unstoppable. This is what people power looks like. We will rise to the challenge."
Does anyone here disagree with that ?
I disagree with it.
I disagree with it too, but not for all the reasons GSY quoted. I have two reasons, both of which I believe are relevant to the Tesla success/failure story.
Not that I have not said all that GSY said and many times too. But they are not pertinent to this situation.
My first issue is that we had, over the last decade, successfully made AGW and Climate Change, into a matter of science which intruded into our physical world and needed to be dealt with on the basis of science.
Finally we had a path where politicians, Even Trump, were struggling to make it a political football.
Then we have a bunch of people, in their off time, disrupting the day to day lives of normal people for what is seen, by the masses, as little more than a stunt.
Then we have a 16 year old (little girl), as such things are seen, going to the UN and being seriously listened to by the powers of the world. This is seen as yet another stunt.
Those two actions, taken together, politicised Climate Change all over again.
We had successfully starved the denial camp of oxygen. Now they have a whole world of oxygen and the whole "whack a mole" begins all over again.
Now if it motivated a whole new generation of youth to get off the backsides and get serious about Climate Change, I might think that picking up the mallet again and whacking those moles all over again might be worth it.
But now we come to my second point.
Young people today have little focus and even less stamina. It is no mistake that the 16 year old girl is on the spectrum and is actually unable to focus on anything else.
In my adult life we have had no major wars. Nothing more than campaign size for ww2/ww1. The closest was Vietnam, which ended whilst I was at school. Even that was little more than a spat in world war terms.
So people, today, have grown up in peace and prosperity. They are totally unsuited to a long drawn out conflict with the authorities to deal with AGW. Those who oppose them, on the other hand, are implacably opposed to fighting AGW and always will be.
So all this "good stuff" about Thunberg and ER? You might want to wonder why the powers that be allowed it at all!
Where is the relevance to Tesla?
Tesla is wholly formed to meet the emerging demand from a world that is determined to exit FF reliance and the issues that come with it.
Anything that politicise the efforts to move from FF to clean energy is, IMO going to drag those efforts backwards and Tesla is right in the firing line.