{"id":1186204,"date":"2023-08-22T05:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T05:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=292162"},"modified":"2023-08-22T05:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T05:07:24","slug":"no-free-lunch-the-hidden-costs-of-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/22\/no-free-lunch-the-hidden-costs-of-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"No Free Lunch: The Hidden Costs of EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Costs In his pathbreaking 1971 book,\u00a0The Closing Circle,\u00a0Barry Commoner proposed four laws of ecology:\u00a0Everything is connected to everything else; Everything must go somewhere; Nature knows best; There is no such thing as a free lunch. We are inclined to forget that any technology designed to make life better comes with a cost\u2014not just  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/22\/no-free-lunch-the-hidden-costs-of-evs\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/22\/no-free-lunch-the-hidden-costs-of-evs\/\">No Free Lunch: The Hidden Costs of EVs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/22\/no-free-lunch-the-hidden-costs-of-evs\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Costs In his pathbreaking 1971 book,\u00a0The Closing Circle,\u00a0Barry Commoner proposed four laws of ecology:\u00a0Everything is connected to everything else; Everything must go somewhere; Nature knows best; There is no such thing as a free lunch. We ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,393],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}