About the Environment, Global warming and Climate Change

We live in dangerous days, the real end of history. Francis Fukuyama wrote "The End of History and the Last Man," and he considered the end of history as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Capitalism, WTO and free trade are all central in Fukuyama thinking. But the end of history is more complicated than taking the Fukuyama shortcut road. Fukuyama history will eat itself from inside. Capitalism will carry in its own idea the seed for self-destruction.

Look at what Donald Trump is doing, Him being elected as president is the real end of history. A populist will take no for an answer. He was questioning injecting house cleaning material as a way to fight Corona virus. He denied people the right to speak and protest his policies. He is lost canon. The most noticeable which related to this thread is that he withdrew from the Paris accord to fight global warming and climate change. 

Donald Trump is a friend with Petroleum companies. I am sure they are big donors for his election campaign. I mean these companies prefer Republicans. They are less strict in environmental laws. I think, and correct me if I was wrong; Donald Trump dismissed all employees of the environmental agency. In addition, he allowed drilling for oil and gas in the North Pole area.

All the alternatives to fossil fuel aren't even close to being fully usable on the long range. Let's take as an example the electric cars. They depend on a heavy lithium battery that will put pressure on the tires. The rate for tire replacement will become shorter. The tires are made of rubber that is difficult to recycle and harm to the environment. Then we have other problems facing electric cars. The electricity used to charge the lithium battery is generated using fossil fuel. More electric cars on the roads means less fossil fuel consumption but more electricity. Other solutions like wind and solar energy are facing many difficulties. One of them is availability while the other is efficiency. The world is not going to abandon fossil fuel anytime soon despite all the dreams and good wishes.

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