This looks like an article written by a marketing consultant. In fly-over country only those who have nowhere to go are buying EVs. Many dealers outside of metro areas don't even sell them. No one will buy them.

Before we can mine for the raw materials necessary for batteries and wind/solar power generation, someone is going to have to convince the EPA it is OK to do that.

Do any of the activists or potential carbon harvesters realize that a copious amount of CO2 is required for plant life?

I call bull shit!! People that had their freedoms stripped by a socialist and/or communist government, then regained when the Berlin Wall fell, don't want to go there again. They know privacy rights and free speech are fundamental rights. Why don't you talk to some Poles, East Germans, Ukrainians, Romanians, Latvians or Bulgarians before you claim censoring speech is a good idea. Of course Putin thinks it is a good idea. Pay attention, read some history books,

Sounds to me like this story could preface one of Isaac Asimov's novels.

As an investor, I would like for Alpha to concentrate on the task of making a profit. The social experiments these corporate execs come up with are outside the mission of the company.

You just don't know about it. For example, you might read Stephen Kotler's, "Abundance."

First t6eh Panama Canal and now ICANN.

Check with your local community college or CS department at a Regional University. They are usually bound to strict asset disposal rules but often they can transfer assets they are retiring to public schools or sell them in auction. When we auction old PCs they usually go for $20 to $50. Some of our faculty or staff members buy ours and donate them to needy organizations or even students. Linux with Open Office installs pretty seamlessly and you would be surprised how efficient an old PC can be in the hands of some of these youngsters.

Certainly the NSA listeners call it a "feature."

Clearly we can't convince folks to stop at stop signs. We can't convince folks to "just say no" to drugs. We can't prevent un-safe sex. Why would we think for a minute that on-line security would be important to anyone else. Perhaps penury is an excellent teacher as are automobile wrecks, brain damage, and gonorrhea.

I agree, don't spoil the rivers. Just return the cadavers to their natural element, the sewer.