You need to read more. There are plenty of arguments you just dismiss them out of hand.

No one debates humans have an impact on the environment but only by clutching at straws can you even consider that the impact is that significant.

Climate has 'changed' since before humans were on this planet and will continue to change regardless of what we do with our current level of technology.

Churches of the world unite!

Dude. There was some international treaty where the US and Europe had it so that if any one of them raised the copyright time limit the other would automatically raise it as well. I dread to think if Canada and the US have a similar treaty.

It's a Republic not a Democracy. If it was a Democracy this wouldn't work so easily.

I also expect capitalists to be human beings, with a code of conduct, and actually behave like real people.

Of course there are those who aren't like this and for those people we need regulation. But assuming everyone is a natural born criminal isn't the way to do it.

Capitalism tends to degenerate into cartels which harm the general public. Even Adam Smith knew that. To prevent this anti-trust legislation needs to be actively enforced. With the current global economy the power of the corporations has increased a lot to the point where it becomes hard for national governments to resist them. Even if that government is the US government. The unfortunate end result of this will either be chaos or a world government.

It was always broken. But back then Communism kept them honest. Now that it isn't a threat they think they can do whatever they want.

Fine. Call it an Atelier then.

It's a lot easier to make an electric transmission than a mechanical one for a large heavy vehicle. Just read about the Porsche Tiger tank or the Maus tank from WW2. Some large dump trucks use electric transmission.

Some large dump trucks also have electric drive.

1) Is High-Temperature Electrolysis
2) Is Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction
3) Might be the Fischer-Tropsch Process

All of it is old hat. The question is how efficient and expensive it is.

Sitting on their laurels and ignoring backwards compatibility.

It stripped me of the control I had over when and under what circumstances people could contact me, and placed that control in their hands.

There's a simple solution turn the damned thing off.

Irrelevant. This is an idea already proven viable.

Has not been proven to be economically viable.

Irrelevant. Not the only technology.

It is the technology the solution in the ARTICLE uses. The rest is pink unicorns.

It's the Indian-Asian boundary. India is a subcontinent on its own tectonic plate which has been crushing into Asia for a long time. The place where the plates collide is in the Himalayas. Those mountains are still increasing in altitude because of that.