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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 16 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Halff said the lost trees were equivalent to about 13,000 tonnes of CO2, the annual amount emitted by 2,800 [average internal combustion engine cars]in the US. “So that’s a fraction of the number of the electric cars that Tesla produces and sells every quarter,” he said. “You always have trade-offs, so you need to be aware of what the terms of the trade-off are.”

Don’t you just love it when people “forget” to include construction of the facility and production of those EVs in their CO2 calculations?

Aside from that, EVs aren’t going to save the environment. They will only make cities’ air pollution a little less.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

What EVs will do is save us from an ever-approaching energy crisis, by making an alternative to motor fuel, and reducing global dependence on places like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for fuel, which limits those nations' ability to suppress their own populations or export fuckery outside their borders.

[–] Pechente 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but it seems like public transport is always the skeleton at the ocean floor meme in these discussions. Good public transport would make cities more livable and reduce pollution dramatically and reduce our dependence on petrostates.

Sure, it’s not feasible everywhere but at least here in Germany it’s pretty good for regional transport in towns and cities but always feels kinda disregarded and forgotten by politicians.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 5 points 3 months ago

Public infrastructure. Public transportation, but also bike infrastructure. Not just thrown in as an afterthought, but as the primary concern. As long as people living in cities still think it's somewhat reasonable to own a car we're failing.

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