Polluta

Polluta is an alliance of civil society groups demanding that car companie stop lobbying against climate action, and upgrade to 100% electric vehicle production

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@ECB_cricket What are young leaders to make of your choice of one of the worst companies in the world on climate change, Toyota, as principle sponsor?

Poor choices like this legitimize the giant polluters undermining young people’s future

https://t.co/C013hAnRVF

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

By emitting more CO2 than most countries on earth, and lobbying hard against policies that would tackle climate change, @ECB_cricket’s strange choice of sponsor, Toyota, is actively harming the future of cricket.

#ENGvsNZ

https://t.co/C013hAnRVF

[Dr. Andy Palmer @AndyatAuto]

Andrew. What I find staggering to understand in the comments and in your historical commentary, is the opposition to EV’s and the transition to net zero - this was the UKs opportunity- as an example, I bought LEAF and AESC to UK in 2011. China first set out its industrial strategy to dominate in NEV In 1992 - they told us they would leap-frog the west 25years ago. Yet the EU, UK and various commentators failed to invest in the emerging technology, failed to get behind the inevitable change and now bemoan the decline of our manufacturing industry. The car industry survives on its ability to manifest changes in line with changing customer requirements- we have failed to invest in batteries, in EV, in software stacks and autonomous technology. We failed to embrace an industrial strategy for our country and now we’re, unsurprisingly on the back foot.

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@Hartley_Patter @afneil Andrew as usual gets things back to front.

VW’s problems primarily lie within China itself (previously German OEM’s huge export market) where it was too slow to adapt to rapid takeover of EVs, perhaps listened too much to EV skeptics like Andrew himself 😂, and got wiped out

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

The car industry group lobbying to weaken the UK’s most important climate policy is warning drivers about the heatwave

[SMMT @SMMT]

🌡️Britain is experiencing a heatwave. A quick vehicle check can help avoid breakdowns before you travel⬇️

✅Coolant levels
✅Tyre pressure
✅Battery condition
✅Air con performance
✅Fluids

Stay safe and keep moving. Don’t get caught out by the heat.

#Heatwave #UKAutomotive #Aftermarket

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@ECB_cricket while England men are sweltering in this climate change-boosted heatwave, why have you picked one of the worst companies for the climate in the world as sponsor?

+Toyota adds 11 million fossil fuel vehicles to roads each year

+Lobbying against UK climate policy

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@DrSimEvans @NedMolloy @TOYOTA_PR can you please stop lobbying against the UK’s flagship climate policy?

We are melting in a heatwave here, wrong time!

Also @ECB_cricket why accept giant climate polluters as sponsors, when this heat is dangerous for players

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@LawrenceReekie @sharrond62 She’s right to be angry at high electricity rates, but wrong about the cause.

Germany has cheaper electricity than the UK, even though they have a much *higher* carbon price than us within that.

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@ClanPetrie @sharrond62 Because of geological decline rates, the UK’s North Sea peaked production around the year 2000, and has declined ever since, to a tiny fraction of its 80s hayday, even through govts that tried get last drop.

This woman is angry at the Carboniferous period 🤷‍♂️

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@Jens72609591 @furcoatpajamas @Electroversenet “Something is not happening right now, therefore the statistical *chance* of it happening cannot be rising”

Great argument pal 😀 Wish they taught logic in more schools nowadays

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@John37866 @Electroversenet the earth’s climate is kind of an important part of the environment.

you should read a “book” about it, theyre these physical paper things with facts in

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@BluEvntHorizon @Electroversenet It would be, yes.

Except wind power is not only vastly more resource-efficient than fossil fuels, emits 95% less CO2, and hooks us up to energy source that er *dont run out*, it also kills way LESS birds than the fossil fuels it replaces!

https://t.co/ZcJIGxEMS8

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@Donnell98828N @Electroversenet Yep, that is a well known talking point indeed. If at some point you become curious about what real scientists are actually studying in this field, and how we know what we do, here’s a good place to start

https://t.co/HRV5tOwdig

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@Jens72609591 @Electroversenet Clearly you dont follow this sector, but about half of all EVs sold today dont contain any cobalt, because theyve moved on to LFP chemistries.

Will that change your mind? No, because youre not interested in evidence, someone has just sucked you into a certain narrative that fits

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@furcoatpajamas @Jens72609591 @Electroversenet Yah, the danger is not in us breathing in high amounts of CO2, its not poisonous! (we breathe it out) Also true that plants absorb it. Well done.

Climate change is on a different scale- earth systems physics and chemistry.
Ignore news, read the science:

https://t.co/HRV5tOwdig

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@Jens72609591 @furcoatpajamas @Electroversenet Irreplaceable? Well actually about a 5th of the world’s car sales dont burn oil to go along any more, they are electric.

And 65% of car sales in Sweden are EVs, so i guess at this point we just call them normal cars, as opposed to the old fashioned oil-burning carcinogenic ones

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@John37866 @Electroversenet Yes this “electroverse” bullcrap X account is *ideologically* against some specific energy sources (renewable), so fakes environmental concern in order to attack them.

If it was genuine concern you’d see posts about oil spills, coal dust, and methane leaks all the time. So, fake

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@fortgleason @Electroversenet No they are incredibly more efficient than burning fossil fuels, with far less harm to the environment from production to disposal, and they are needed at massive scale.

So kind of just reverse everything and youve got it 😀

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@furcoatpajamas @Jens72609591 @Electroversenet climate change undermining the stability of a fragile global agriculture system that keeps all 8 billion of us alive

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@afneil Or are you just pretending to care about private jet emissions as a real issue, because you dislike the UN Sec Gen, and were looking around for something to attack him? ☹️

[Polluta @PollutaMotor]

@afneil Great to hear you support tackling emissions from private jets Andrew.

Are you more in favour of emissions pricing, an e-fuels blending mandate, or simply scrapping the ludicrous 100% tax free status of jet fuel used by the mega rich, to tackle this problem?