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Hobson's Choice, by Don Tassone

20/5/2022

16 Comments

 
Hobson was a teenager when he began paying close attention to climate change. What he learned alarmed him.

“Damn!” Hobson said.

He vowed his first car would be electric. When he graduated from college and got a job, Hobson made good on that promise. By then, most cars and trucks were electric.

Hobson felt good about his choice until he heard the news. The mass conversion to electric vehicles was making climate change worse because the power plants supplying all that electricity were spewing even more carbon dioxide and toxic metals into the air.

“Damn!” said Hobson.
16 Comments
Jennifer Duncan
20/5/2022 12:34:58 pm

I'm glad you wrote this. It annoys me to no end to hear people spouting that electric cars will save us all. As you say, where will the electricity come from, and the mining for lithium for the batteries is destructive. There are no easy solutions to pollution.

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peppermint
20/5/2022 12:36:39 pm

Hobson learned an answer to a question that comes to my mind. I alwaus wonder why no one seems to mention CONSERVE. Thanks, Hobson and Don, for exposing the issue.

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Peggy Gerber
20/5/2022 01:45:02 pm

Good old Hobson, always trying to do the right thing. We need people like him, who care, to come up with better solutions.

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Jim Bartlett link
20/5/2022 03:51:43 pm

"Damn" good story, Don
Jim

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Pamela Kennedy
20/5/2022 10:16:33 pm

Well done, Don!

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Cindy Patrick
21/5/2022 02:20:10 am

Good point to the story, it twigged emotion as well. Jennifer Duncan said it for me. 👍

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Kathy K
21/5/2022 02:41:47 am

Peppermint and Jennifer hit it squarely. We have to conserve. We have to stop abusing the earth. It is a living thing and we tend to think of it as a rock. It’s not. It is so much more.

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Paritosh Chandra Dugar
21/5/2022 05:31:06 am

What a title! So symbolic! The message is so innovative. Wonderful, Don.

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Sue Clayton
21/5/2022 06:29:58 am

Something to ponder, Don. The world should go nuclear for energy, but then we'd only end up wiping out the whole planet

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Mary Anne Mc Enery
21/5/2022 07:31:43 am

Thank you Don,your story has aroused me to ponder on this complex issue and thanks also to all the Greta Thunberg's fighting the good fight. Chronologically I could be her grandmother; how dare I spoil and threathen her future.

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Don Tassone link
21/5/2022 02:30:06 pm

Thank you all for your thoughtful comments.

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Tom Baldwin
21/5/2022 10:58:48 pm

Well done, Don.

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Libby Belle link
23/5/2022 05:57:14 pm

Try, try, and try again, damn it! That's the message I'm taking from your fine story. Keep us thinking Tassone!

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Don Tassone link
24/5/2022 04:24:46 am

Thank you, Tom and Libby.

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Dee Lorraine
26/5/2022 06:15:01 pm

I agree with all of the above comments. Thanks for another thought-filled story, Don.

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Don Tassone link
26/5/2022 06:25:03 pm

Thanks, Dee.

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