Planes are necessary to some level unless human civilization is to regress. I love trains, but they can’t cross an ocean or fly to the other side of the world in a day. People won’t give up flying, so at a certain point technology needs to step in to make a fix. Technology can’t fix everything, but it can sure help.
The nice thing about hydrogen being that once you have a hydrogen powered vehicle, it doesn’t matter where the hydrogen comes from. Grey hydrogen or green hydrogen, it works the same. It’s much the same as with grid power. When you can separate pollution from the vehicle, you can later reduce that pollution at a single centralized source rather than a million smaller sources.
While this is certainly possible, I’m a little skeptical that it will be widely adopted. Giving up currency sovereignty is huge for a government. If they’re not largely on the same page, it could go bad really fast. Latin America also has some huge ideological differences that could spill over into currency management. Remember Greece’s woes? Those were partially exasperated by Germany being a stick in the mud over the European Central Bank. I would expect Latin America to experience worse.
Evidently, he’d be perfectly fine with the system as long as the slave owners weren’t allowed to egregiously abuse their slaves.
Slavery is intrinsically abusive. I didn’t think I needed to bother saying that. Chattel slavery is intrinsically more abusive than other forms of slavery, especially as was practiced in the South.
Thus he even argues that the modern prison slavery in US is not comparable to chattel slavery.
Comparable? Hell no, in the same way that the Holocaust is not comparable with a few dozen people being murdered. Obviously both are evil, but one is terrible on a completely different scale than the other.
Good thing Crimea’s not in Russia, then.