The solutions are obvious if you think outside the car-centric mindset of most of the west. Trains, buses, bike infrastructure and denser walkable cities. These solutions are rooted in 150 years of reality but have been sidelined in the past 70 years.
Merely mitigating tailpipe emissions is inadequate. Even with their increased efficiency they still are emitting more per mile than other means of transport and encourage sprawling out and traveling more per year. Cars, even electric ones, are not sustainable.
There is also the opportunity cost to it. We’re spending hundreds of billions of public and private money to build the infrastructure and and cars for an e.v. transition in the name of the environment when there are other projects that could have a way larger impact on moving us towards sustainability. Think if we took all the money going into evs right now and put it towards a high speed rail network.
The solutions are obvious if you think outside the car-centric mindset of most of the west. Trains, buses, bike infrastructure and denser walkable cities. These solutions are rooted in 150 years of reality but have been sidelined in the past 70 years.
Merely mitigating tailpipe emissions is inadequate. Even with their increased efficiency they still are emitting more per mile than other means of transport and encourage sprawling out and traveling more per year. Cars, even electric ones, are not sustainable.
There is also the opportunity cost to it. We’re spending hundreds of billions of public and private money to build the infrastructure and and cars for an e.v. transition in the name of the environment when there are other projects that could have a way larger impact on moving us towards sustainability. Think if we took all the money going into evs right now and put it towards a high speed rail network.