Power to the people
We have a massive power shortage coming, all the potential electric cars do not have enough power to charge them, points are going in all over the place, which is a good thing, but we need to have the electricity supply.
Note wasting power and helping produce power via panels, wind turbines etc. Dams particularity in hotter countries have large environmental problems often changing weather and the ecology both locally and further down stream, and affecting oceans and coastal areas with more erosion etc.
Over the last 50 years things in UK have got better, but look at any city's skyline you will see brown smog, and particularity abroad, see any pics of LA, China, India etc. In the 1990's I went to Nepal you saw Mount Everest from the airport, last time I went 10 years later no Everest, and even at street level in Katmandu thick heavy chocking smog. Nepal has no heavy industry and not a huge amount of cars, but has India and China as neighbours who are pumping as much junk into the atmosphere as they can.
Not all cars are polluting via emissions with the aid of unleaded fuel, add blue to diesel and petrol many are emission free, and the life of an electric car seems to be roughly 100,000 miles whilst many cars both petrol and diesel will do 300,000 plus. Also nearly all parts of cars can be recycled. Whereas electric cars have issues with highly toxic batteries.
We have to help poorer countries to get rid of two strokes and replace with electric but they need help with all the cost and production of power, much can be done through business loans and commercial sharing of space for power etc. Most people have some sort of roof that can be used. Flats and condos can group share and benefit from these. One thing countries with less GDP do often have is sunshine, and often using wood to cook with means so often a hill town is lost in smoke by mid-morning then being trapped with the atmosphere, let alone chopping down of forest trees making the whole cycle worse.
One small panel not expensive could easily provide cooking and easily provided via some sort of cheap loan government backed or business backed with sales of stoves etc making a in the round business circle.
Antiques and vintage plays a massive part in all this reusing, up-cycling and saving most of what we sell could never be made for what we sell it for. A friend asked for some stones from a holiday to be made into a ring, costing £300, we easily have similar rings for sale from 40 to £100, and this is at a very simple level, with most antique and second hand furniture the wood alone could not be produced for the cost of the item, let alone the match in quality. We waste almost nothing from a house clearance, its all recycled and resold where ever possible almost nothing goes to the land fill.
Whilst in a global scheme one doesn't want to do an Indonesian carver out of business is there any need to import another pair of wooden candlesticks when we have so much to be reused and with a bit of paint or a polish can and does work really well.
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