Why Elon Musk Won't Save Us
July 16, 2021
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why Elon Musk won't save us from climate change. Specifically, I look at how Elon Musk's companies like Tesla and SpaceX adhere to a. philosophy of ecomodernism that employs ideologies of techno-optimism and decoupling to tackling the problems of the climate crisis. Elon Musk won't save us because companies like Tesla are exploiting workers in Tesla factories, as well as utilizing capitalist, colonialist methods of extraction that rely on child labor in cobalt and lithium mines. Elon Musk's future is one where the ruling class enjoys the luxuries of his companies like the Tesla Cybertruck or the Las Vegas Loop System, or even a martian space colony, all at the expense of laborers and the working class. Elon Musk shows that ecomodernism is an untenable solution to the climate crisis and climate change. Not only does decoupling not work, but futuristic technologies have very tangible consequences for people and for the planet.
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