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Are Electric Cars the Solution?
(www.resilience.org)
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.
No. They’re a step.
They solve the wrong problem - we need fewer cars, not electric cars.
Yeah, but we're shit at doing that so how about we do the "easy" part of getting less CO2 and local pollution by shifting everything Electric right now and push for better overall. This is a case for doing something in the right direction, not waiting for the perfect solution.
Unless you have a time machine and we go back to the 80s and start the conversion then like we should have.
Came here to say this. Many changes need to be made, and some will be more effective than others, but we can't afford to do nothing.