[AGL] Bob Dylan show Dec. 2019

[Charles Loving]

*Make the Planet Great Again.*
*"Our future is being taken away."*
*Does Green mean less pollution?*
*The oil people propaganda machine may be working overtime but there is a
series on Al Jeezera that shows in pictures the problem with the green
idea.*

*Look at the electric car for one. It is touted as the vehicle of the
future. But it uses a plethora of rare metals. Not to say gas-driven cars
don't. The electric car isn't so innocent.*

*You will find 175 pounds of copper in the car.*
*Magnesium for the seats*
*Yttrium for the sensors*
*Tungsten for the chassis*
*Neodymium in the headlights*
*Lanthanum in the mirrors*
*Germanium for night vision*
*Ceram in the windscreen*
*Just those batteries use a lot of rare metals. And over time those
batteries will die and have to be thrown away or recycled.*
*Plus you will need Bismuth and Tantatuim *

*All these metals and compounds are rare metals. China has 75% of these
metals. There are other sources of course where you find mines. Mines that
are destroying the countryside around them.*

*Mining causes disastrous pollution. Heavy metals are dumped into streams.
There are millions of gallons of polluted wastewater, contaminated with
Flourine, Mercury, and other heavy metals that are dumped or stored in
ponds where the contaminates leach into the water table. *

*The air suffers from dust created which is also saturated. The demand for
copper has increased. Chuquicamata in Chie produced 470,000 tons last year
alone from a mine that is a half-mile deep and 2 and a half miles wide. The
scene is one of devastation. The mine uses millions of gallons of water in
a desert where it hasn't recorded rain in 500 years. The closest city is a
four-hour drive. The population of 200,000 suffer from lung disease. 10%
have some sort of cardio problems or cancer due to heavy metal pollution.*

*The demand for different kinds of metal increased by 25% just last year.*

*A wind machine uses 20 tons of aluminum and 500 tons of steel plus copper
and rare metals. According to some of the professors and experts on the
problem, they do not see wind and solar as a solution. The mining causes
more demand and more pollution of the landscape as well as the air. And
added to that is that the devices wear out over time and have to be
replaced. So far there has been little or no effort to recycle wind
turbines or solar cells. They are just added to the landfill.*

*Norway we are told is the leader in the world of using renewables. Their
government ignores the ecological impact elsewhere since it doesn't happen
in Norway.*

*So as we turn toward green are we just causing a new disaster?*
*It would seem so to me.*

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 4:56 AM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFyFmjsLzI
>
> I found this very recent Bob Dylan show by accident from just last year.
>
> It is like a Grateful Dead show which kinda grows on you. Check it out
> if you dig Dylan.
>


-- 
Charlie Loving
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