But it is important to start somewhere to initiate this change over decades!
It's like the criticism that e-cars are bad because the charging infrastructure is missing. Was there already a network of gas stations when the first vehicles hit the road? No, that’s growing. Sometimes there are too many cars, sometimes too many gas stations, etc., in the long run it balances out. You have to endure the transitional states.
I find the term "transitional states" aptly put; I once read a book in which such transitional periods between new phases were called "threshold spaces," which humans don't like to endure. In principle, however, these can be the best times because you have let go of the outdated and now face the diversity of new possibilities. A few years ago, I had various visits from people in the automotive industry in Norway. How they complained or, on behalf of the German car manufacturers, advocated for diesel etc. because Tesla was already driving everywhere there. Today, exactly these people drive an e-car in Germany as if they had never said anything else. I don’t hold it against them, but it also shows that we often cling desperately to the old because we cannot or do not want to imagine the new.
There are already plenty of good architects and engineers today who see the houses of the future heated with electricity or by other means. I think it’s good when some simply dare to walk this path.
Even Greta says nuclear power is good. Because without supply security, no change will be accepted. Absolutely right. It’s a bitter pill but better than burning coal.
In my generation, people often went to the streets AGAINST nuclear power or put stickers on their bikes; in my mind, it is still attached like a plague. When my son today shows me his point of view on it, I see that it can be looked at from another angle as a whole, something that never occurred to me before.
Then we have the knowledge and technology to sell it all over the world. In the growth market digitalization, we have almost lost already.
We have always been proud of our engineering and also our science. But especially in the automotive industry, technical innovation seems to matter less nowadays than dirty business. The gentlemen Bosch, Maybach, and Daimler, etc., would turn in their graves if they saw how their achievements are being sold with mafia-like methods; there are hardly any car executives left who haven’t been in jail or acted massively criminally.
I experienced a good example in South America, where they partly pride themselves on the large number of engineers. But looking closely, one finds that the country itself develops or manufactures no product at all, and almost every engineer is a "ingeniero comercial," a commercial engineer... in other words a seller or consultant without real, technical knowledge, period! I see something similar with us when the actual workpiece loses importance and consultants and sellers take over the "power" over the actual knowledge.
Never say never ;-)
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