Let's stop musking around
- #02 El Niño
- Feb 24
- 3 min read
self-commitment is not a service / von El Niño #02
Commitment in sustainability comes with, comes with work to be done just like commitment in any relationship, just like commitment to a job or anything else in life that you decide to commit to. If you want to be committed to do your share against the climate crisis, then you have to put in a little bit of the work. It will not come to you just by itself. This commitment means you have to watch yourself as an individual and in particular as a company. You have to watch yourself and see where you can do more and what you could do about it.
And instead of trying to find the solutions by yourself, which very often are equal to a lack of knowledge, which in return, very often results in not having found the right solution, and one that is only probably shifting the problem, such as ecars and ebikes. Shifting the problem rather than, actually being part of the solution. Why ebikes? Why ecars? Ebikes are a little bit less because the batteries are smaller.
Generally, though, the problem remains the same. The problem is that with ebikes and ecars, what we do is we reduce the emissions less with ebikes though because the alternative to ebikes are analog bikes, which have zero emissions apart from the bikes being produced, and this effect is getting worse with an ebike. So e bikes are the less sustainable solution in comparison to in comparison to unlock bikes. They are part of a more sustainable solution if they start replacing cars, be it petrol driven or battery driven cars. Why ecars?
Ecars do nothing nothing but shifting a problem from here to somewhere else. From here to where? From here, so called developed country, so called civilized country at more or less the height of of, technology through the exploitation, the post colonialist exploitation of other countries. Modern colonialism that has not stopped because the extraction of valuables and resources still happens in countries that have been colonized by the countries that today is still profit from it. Despite the fact that some or most of the colonies have ended, the heritage of these companies remains the exact same thing.
And while remaining this the exact same thing, what we do is extract our resources from there to not only feed our luxury, but now also feed our hunger for presumable, change in sustainability. And this, sustainability comes with only one thing, and that is the evasion of local emissions. The price this has on other countries, earths, nature, water, and all of this are incalculable. The price on child labor and lit literal slavery in some of these countries is, up until today, not really part of any sort of study because people want to avoid talking about this. E cars are not part of the solution.
We have to stop thinking that just because we get e cars, the world is going to get a better place. It's not the case. And if you look at Elon Musk, then you know why.
Bicycle courier "El Niño #02" is part of the courier service CROW, which replaces cars with cargo bikes, thereby contributing to the improvement of the quality of life in the city. The sustainable courier service also promotes a collaborative working approach. More information at crowberlin.de. (Critique of Elon Musk, electric cars, greenwashing, and the associated effects of the global post-colonial exploitation effect of "sustainable" technologies)
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