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Has Tesla peaked? And what would that mean for the climate?
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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Counterpoint, their is a very big difference between burning oil and an infinitely recyclable metal that does not inherently release carbon and only ever has to be mined once before it is used forever. It’s not a solution to say the inherent waste of using a massive vehicle to move a single person in a crowded environment, but from the perspective of preventing the vast destruction of climate change, replacing things that inherently output carbon to things that don’t is a solution.
Again, there are plenty of other methods of transport like trains, trams, bikes, etc… but it is simply ridiculous to claim that buring oil is just the same as not buring oil.