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About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin
(www.theguardian.com)
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I remember when climate activists were storming this factory and Lemmy users berated me for calling out the fact that Tesla factories and electric cars in general are a fucking disaster for the environment. It's pathetic how easily people are convinced that 10 tonnes of e-waste is the solution to the toxic sludge slowly drowning us all
If a car drives more than 60.000 km in its lifetime, a battery powered vehicle will be more environmentally friendly. With every additional kilometer driven, it will be better than combustion vehicles.
Sure, driving less is always better.
Yeah, we need less cars overall. But those cars we build should be BEVs mainly.
Also there is global and local environmental effects. What can have relatively smaller global effects can still have huge local effects, and subsequently indirect global effects, that may not be attributed correctly.
The opposition to the Tesla plant is mainly because of their lavish consumption of ground water in a strongly stressed water resource, intransparency about potential pollution to that water resource region and last but not least political influencing on the local environmental regulatory bodies, to make the factory happen while looking the other way on environmental regulations.
It is perfectly reasonable for people not to want a factory to steal and poison their water while the government deliberately looks away. Tesla could have addressed legitimate concerns proactively and respectfully. Instead they gaslighted the people and picked fights with many local stakeholders like the local water utility.