You are far more eloquent than I, but I feel like I've been writing this article in my mind, watching the insanity for the last couple of decades. I feel like I am beating my head against a wall in almost every conversation, simply trying to understand what this "EV is the future" plan looks like, and how it's supposed to work without creating catastrophic cascade failures across our supply chains.
I'm constantly met with inarticulate responses ranging from "LOL ok you gas guzzling moron" to "Government knows best, now kneel". We need to find ways to do more with less. Which is actually relatively easy, but it's not glamorous, and it doesn't sell product.
Just a simple example: Let's start with letting go of the antiquated 9-5 lifestyle and high rise building frenzy. Let people work from home, the reduction in unnecessary traffic and pollution has already show demonstrable improvement during the pandemic. Why create more commute time, more overhead, and more waste when we have proven that the workforce doesn't need to be packed into offices to get the job done.
It seems that people truly think we can buy more products, more often, in order to save the environment. Ignoring the fact that that will exponentially increase the resource contention and demand we already have. Never mind the fact that we are selling our oil futures to foreign companies in order to make, and ship these products not once, but two or three times across the ocean. And we're putting our future into the hands of 3rd world countries who use slave labor and war to secure mineral rights to these pit mines, with no moral, ethical, or ecological conscience.
Having these products made internationally means they are exempt from EPA scrutiny, or any sort of pollution or process control really, at bare minimum. But, we are saving the planet, who cares if China is dumping waste reagent and byproduct straight into the rivers and soil, who cares if they pump pollution into the air, creating thick smog that drifts far across the world.
Apparently the answer is using governments to ban ICE, and enforce EV only sales globally by 2030...in 8 years. Then handing the entirety of our future over to developing countries with no understanding or regard for ethical or ecological practices.
This "movement" serves only to create a new generation of oil barons, who will coincidentally be much the same as the last generation, likely with very familiar names and faces. It's driven by greed, and a desire to prey on the inner guilt instilled in you by clever marketing and paid for media coverage.
