Writing topic challenges

A few complex topics I would like to write about include the decline of the middle class, climate change, mental health, immigration, globalization, populism and nationalism.  I don't know how to tackle the subject succinctly because they're so big.  Maybe that's what separates a writer from a hack.  

I read a series of articles about the adoption of electric cars and the series was like 25 pages long to examine a multitude of aspects to consider as to the complexity of the transition and the length of time it will take.  And what I learned is the transition to electrified transportation comes with unintended consequences which are either not that out or ignored in the ridiculous goal of eliminating vehicles with an internal combustion based powertrain.  It's almost like the regulators and green new deal advocates don't care about the unintended consequences of electric cars.  They just want fossil fuel based energy outlawed because "it's bad for the environment."  

And maybe unintended consequences have to do will all the topics I want to write about.  Isaac Newton's third law of motion states that for every action there is a separate and opposite reaction.  No where does it say that the reaction will be immediate, as intended or known.  The problem is that there is only granted to be an opposite reaction.  I call the opposite reaction the unintended consequence when it comes to regulation and policy.  And as we're learning, sometimes it's too late to deal with the opposite reaction because the damage has been done.  

Just think about the public school system.  Instead of having to provide instruction to children speaking many different languages on top of having to teach them English.  Imagine the American public school system having to provide instruction and communicate with people who only speak Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese, Urdu and Bahasa Indonesian.  It's ridiculous nor practical to ask an American institution to cater to all these other cultures.  

The biggest challenge with electric cars is having enough energy available on the grid to charge these things while still providing enough electricity to maintain our accustomed standard of living conveniences?  What about mining all the rare earth minerals for the batteries and transporting all this stuff? 

Importing goods from countries with cheap labor is all well and good until you realize the transoceanic shipping industry creates a global pollution chain and consumes large amounts of fuel.  An average container ship has a capacity of up to 2 MILLION gallons of fuel with an average of 63,000 gallons of fuel burned by a single ship in one day.  Unintended consequences of buying imported goods instead of buying food and goods imported from across the world.  

But whatever.  Who cares?  Let the bureaucrats and members of the World Economic Forum continue their ridiculous policy making without taking into consideration or caring about the unintended consequences or collateral damage caused by implementing their agendas for a global civilization.

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