Refusing to manufacture solar panels because the people living over the whatever refuse to let us mine the whatever would lead to us burning more fossil fuels and killing the planet sooner, and it would even be worse for the people living above the whatever.
There are also other places you could get those materials from. Let’s not pretend that it’s not about a particular company wanting to extract those materials from that spot for their own profit.
Capitalism isn’t altruistic. It’ll never be about things getting better for people.
Refusing to manufacture solar panels because the people living over the whatever refuse to let us mine the whatever would lead to us burning more fossil fuels and killing the planet sooner, and it would even be worse for the people living above the whatever.
There are also other places you could get those materials from. Let’s not pretend that it’s not about a particular company wanting to extract those materials from that spot for their own profit.
Capitalism isn’t altruistic. It’ll never be about things getting better for people.