To fill the void

“Nature abhors a vacuum” — said Aristotle. In nature everything is balanced definitely. And all the processes that we have in the last couple of decades observed around the concerns of mankind environmental problems, provide a clear confirmation of the basic thesis of the ancient Greek philosopher.

That to obtain environmentally friendly electricity is necessary to burn hydrocarbon fuel, to repeat it again for a long time already indecent. The fact that hydroelectric power lead to the violation of the hydrological regime of the largest rivers, are also already common place. The water is not flowing, the fish are not migrating, shallow river. About nuclear energy will not even talk. Even if it was not Three Mile island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, by itself, the uranium mining process is very far from any standards of environmental performance.

Solar energy is also all wrong. The production of solar panels is extremely toxic process, but they then still need to be disposed of. Wind generators provide shade, noise and vibration, interfere with the birds and spoil the beautiful views. And most importantly — and solar and wind farms require the accumulation of electricity, because their work was irregular. And storage of electricity the process is still extremely inefficient and is also toxic.

And here’s another precedent: represents 14 families from the Republic of the Congo lawyers filed a class action lawsuit to Apple, Google, Tesla, Dell, and Microsoft. Because their children are out hunting for cobalt for the production of lithium-ion batteries, have suffered. Transnational corporations allegedly knew that the cobalt mines in the Congo is free of child labour.

Of course, the background of any such claim is clear — IT giants easier to pay greedy American Lauer multimillion-dollar compensation than to engage in nasty litigation. But the Internet is rife with memes with a Swedish girl that requires a switch to electricity, and Congolese boy, who says: Greta, I extract the cobalt as fast as they can. Because nature abhors a vacuum. And every Swedish girl ride on the boat, a boy from the Congo who works in the mine.

And the result of the combined action of all these forces it turns out that? That’s right — the same emptiness that abhors nature. According to the classic work of Ivan Krylov about a Swan, cancer and pike.

And since nature abhors a vacuum — it means that it is this emptiness sure something will fill. However we, that is humanity — this is probably not know.

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