Can the Free Market Solve the Climate Emergency? Electric vehicle producers sure want you to think so. In the past year, unprecedented wildfires on the West Coast gave California a seemingly perpetual sepia makeover; the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic quickly outpaced the National Hurricane Centerâs ability to name them; and Texasâs entire power grid went down during an extreme winter storm, killing dozens, if not more. All of these events are linked to climate change. The people who have been forced to live in this intensely individualist society, especially people of color and people living in poverty, should not have to bear more of the burden for the climate emergency than the oil and auto company CEOs who purposefully put us in this unforgiving conundrum to line their pockets.