I think in the main your
I think in the main your article is true but let us look at the facts.
Elon issued part 1 of his road map for Tesla and then the final part a few yrs afterwards.
In this road map he clearly indicated that the reasondetra was to transition the global automotive industry to sustainability.
You can not get a more environmentalist manifesto than that, so Tesla's core values are environmental that is why he and Tesla have been in the cross-hairs of FUD from big auto and big oil &gas and politicians in the US.
Tesla in fact has been saved by a dictatorial and fascist one party state.....China.
This clearly shows that capitalist markets and politics and manopolistic powers have to a large extent been able to kill of upstarts and their is no such thing as a level playing field.
Thank god Elon was already rich and had succeeded in the conventional world of business that detests socially lead business models.
In both the China and Western examples the common factor is money.
It is both the explanation to how Tesla got started, why they faced resistance and why they will succeed.
It is also clear why the world has been on a destructive path since humans began to farm and form complex civilisations.....in my view.
Can humans evolve into a new state of mind and consciousness that allows us to not be fearful of other humans who we label as different but who are self evidently not.
The entire environmental movement has been a long struggle to break this individualistic and egotistical mindset and programming. The methodology has been kind of hit and miss but consumers in the West have over time had to put to the dots together for themselves which has triggered have a moment of epiphany that happened due to the fallout of the 2008 crash.
Now, because of the global pandemic humans all over the world are starting to see the world as intrinsically connected and that again there are issues that need to be worked out collaboratively where our selfish needs -amplified by our political leaders, who most of the time feed off of this and are themselves motivated by the same - have to transcend this default stance.
The path is normally one where the countries seek to hard resources for themselves or prevent others from accessing a thing but the outcome or solution they think they have attained is undermined by the fact that the rest of the world or perceived competitor nation does not have access to siad resorces or technology that has been denied to them.
I can clearly deminstrate this via the hording of vaccine doses pre-purchased by the global north relative to the global south.
I can also make the case when we talk about climate change and adaptation where the global north has the finances to de-carbonise its power grid, its economic value chains and the tech to do so cost effectively; but the Global South does not.
The Global South will thefore be polluting and emitting Co2 from coal powered power plants well into the next decade, undermining the rate at which climate change can be reduced and thus the efforts of the Global North.