Remember all the times Elon Musk said Tesla is so amazing for the environment? The company is being sued for violating the Clean Air Act hundreds of times in recent years by emitting harmful pollutants from its Fremont factory into nearby neighborhoods.
@parismarx We have got to find a way to stop people and companies who can rack up 112 air pollution violations in 5 years and be sued by 25 separate local governments for pollution.
It's truly astounding that people who were caught with some marijuana 3 times are in prison for life (and they shouldn't be), but a corporation that is killing people faces no noticeable accountability.
@eagerpebble @parismarx Indeed.
Elon Musk was always about power. Environmentalism was just something he saw could be exploited for that aim.
A lot of people let him off the hook for too many times, ”because he was doing a good thing.”
We got here because people wanted a strong leader, then worshipped him instead of what he did.
This is how we got here. Wishfull thinking and cults of personality: ”We have a champion here”..
@gimulnautti Absolutely. Of all the things he's done, only Tesla had any tenuous link to environmentalism. SpaceX is perfectly happy to blow up rockets full of fossil fuels and hypergolic propellants (which are extremely dangerous) and then call it a "success". He's even dropping large chunks of Starlink satellites on farms in Saskatchewan.