• @Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    8910 months ago

    He was never a fucking environmental hero. He saw an opportunity to make money and took it.

    • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      110 months ago

      He literally foiled government plans to create high speed rail in America. In favor of building tunnels for more cars. How can anyone think for a second he’s any kind of hero?

  • @ohlaph@lemmy.world
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    7210 months ago

    He has fought against mass transit in favor of electric cars. He’s not the environmentalist he claims to be.

    • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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      810 months ago

      And Tesla is only profitable because it sells its carbon credits to ICE car manufacturers. Whole thing is a scam.

  • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    4910 months ago

    How tf was he a hero?

    EVs are a step in the right direction but everything from production to charging relies on fossil fuels. He doesn’t even build them that well.

    • @vind@lemmy.world
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      2410 months ago

      He was a hero in the way that most people who didn’t know him used his propaganda to assume he’s one of the people who properly aimed for change to improve our world.

    • @takeda@lemmy.world
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      1610 months ago

      Yes, he just fooled a lot of us. His only achievement in being “an environmental hero” was investing early in Tesla Motors. That company showed that an EV can look cool and be practical.

      Everything else he does, including some things Tesla does say the opposite.

      • @Supervivens@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        I’d argue their biggest achievement is the nationwide charging network that actually lets long distance driving possible with an EV (as all other options still suck)

  • Endorkend
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    3510 months ago

    He’s a narcissist, he tells the audience that is most convenient to his current goals whatever the fuck they want to hear.

  • @qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world
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    3410 months ago

    It’s absolutely mind boggling how his early image still defines him to most people. His supporters are at Trump levels of copium

    • @neanderthal@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      I used to be a fan in Tesla’s and Space X’s early days. Then he built the stupid Vegas tunnel subway. And launched a car in orbit. And got in the way during that cave fiasco. And the self driving fiascos. Anyone that still thinks the dude has all his marbles is willfully ignorant or hasn’t been paying attention.

  • @WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    710 months ago

    He’s in it for himself (mostly whatever will get him praise to stroke his pathetically fragile ego). Any benefit to the climate is an unintended bonus.

    The left have standards and principles, so he’ll continue to push right for praise - he’s already xitting in agreement with the Jewish question, so at this point, I think he’s already past the point of no return.

  • Obinice
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    510 months ago

    Haha, what gullible idiot ever thought Musk was an “environmental hero”? 😂

    • Deceptichum
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      He’s views on it are softening.

      In 2018 he though it was the biggest threat, now he thinks population decline is. He’s also retweeted false claims such as farming has no effect, etc.

      Honestly I think Elons climate concerns ends where his commercial ventures do. For him going green means batteries, cars, and clean energy to power those, not reducing consumerism/triples R’s or other sustainability.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        110 months ago

        I can’t see inside his brain but I think he’s referring to biological things. The problem is people are looking up farming which includes all the CO2 from gas, diesel, and probably even ng from fertilizer production. They aren’t the same things.

        As for his other things like being against public transit his privilege shows through.

        • Deceptichum
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          110 months ago

          Which would still be wrong.

          Methane as a byproduct of ruminates makes up roughly half of the 20% of CO2e emissions created by the agricultural industry.

    • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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      210 months ago

      “Yeah, climate change is real, but I’ll be real dead by the time it affects human survival, so IDGAF.”

    • sour
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      110 months ago

      climate change is real but not caused by human activities