Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Will there be snacks?

 So while everyone is chirping and moaning about whether or not to give up their gas stove, Wyoming legislators are resolving to outlaw electric vehicle sales in the state after 2035. 

"The proliferation of electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered vehicles will have deleterious impacts on Wyoming's communities and will be detrimental to Wyoming's economy and the ability for the country to efficiently engage in commerce," the resolution says.

And that, folks, right there - performative politics at its finest, tied tightly to the fiction of "individual rights" (responsibilities be damned) and the worship of capitalism - is why I no longer believe in the survival of our species, and the end of our reign is probably a good thing. Nature (who is still kicking herself) was doing just fine until we came along.

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