Subject: Re: EV and 2024
It's absolutely true that one answer is to have the government help the poor people out, which is frequently noted as part of Green proposals. But the same is true of living with climate change - if the poor can't afford to move, have the government help pay for them to move, the same way the government would (and is) helping some (but not all) Londoners try to get into more efficient cars that they can't otherwise afford.

Konstantin Kisin in his speech at Oxford summed it up nearly perfectly: Paraphrasing, he said that there are some 120 million people in China suffering from malnourishment and another 20% (I don't remember the number, just that it's very large) of children in India are malnourished with dysfunctional immune systems.

His exact quote was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The part about outhouses is also spot on:


120 million people in China do not have enough food...they suffer from malnutrition...that means that their immune system is breaking down. You're not going to get them to stay poor.

Imagine you're Xi Jinping, the leader of China. When you're 10 years old there was a revolution in your country, a cultural revolution and people came and they put your father in prison. Your mother had to denounce him. Your sister killed herself. And you, no longer enjoying the protection of your formerly powerful father, were sent to live in a village where you lived in a cave house.

And here you are decades later: you have clawed your way up the bloody and greasy pole of Chinese politics to be the undisputed supreme leader of the very Communist party that destroyed your family. And you know that the main thing you have to do to survive and stay in power is to deliver the one thing that the people of China want:

Prosperity. Economic growth.

Where do you think climate change ranks on Xi Jinping's list of priorities?

The answer, of course, is dead last.