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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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It's certainly possible to convert the whole car industry to EVs. The only trouble is it won't actually solve our problems because car dependency ruins all sorts of other things in addition to the climate, and for most of those the real issue is the amount of space they take up, so even running them on magic pixie dust wouldn't help.
Okay, let me rephrase: even if we assume for the purpose of this discussion that it were possible to 100% transition to EVs, it still wouldn't solve our problems because the worst thing wrong with cars is the sheer amount of space they take up, to the point of forcing us to literally destroy our cities to make room for them. Hell, the damage from mining the concrete for all the parking lots alone dwarfs the damage from mining the lithium for batteries!
That's the point I was trying to make, not quibbling over EVs.
less than 100 years ago, everyone used horses my part the world, we couldn't afford Model T's in 1923. People now whine an electric car is unsuitable for winter, that's trues, but only true because the horse infrastructure of no more than 20 miles between population centers has disappeared, it's 50 to 100 now, with a population density per square mile of less then .25