>> Musk's mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable transport seems to be working flawlessly. > I think it would have happened anyway. You could say t

>> Musk's mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable transport seems to be working flawlessly. > I think it would have happened anyway. You could say that about literally anything. Space travel would have happened anyway. The internet would have happened anyway. The conditions of history are a prerequisite for any major breakthrough. The advancement in rocket technology made space travel possible, but that doesn't make Neil Armstrong's achievements meaningless. He was not passively riding along some wave of inevitability, he was a pioneer that actively pushed humanity further into the future.