@JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @afewbugs @pelle @mpjgregoire Sorry but why should EV infrastructure be publicly funded? E-cars are about proping up the motor industry, not about saving the planet. If we are serious about maintaining a livable planet then wasteful things like cars will have to go.
Over the 20th C our cities were remodeling to make way for cars, now we need to reverse the damage done to make space for people and nature
@kim_harding @JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @pelle @mpjgregoire I think this is a progress over perfection thing. In the long term we need to get rid of private vehicles, but realistically starting from the way we've structured the world now the intermediate step needs to be replacing ICEs with EVs and lack of charging infrastructure is holding that back. Not just for personal mobility but vans transporting goods too, there's less of clear path to overhauling goods logistic than transporting people
@kim_harding @JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @pelle @mpjgregoire But I would definitely like to see that alongside massive investment in public transport, safe cycling infrastructure and rural broadband as well as rent controls in areas close to employment to reduce the amount of commuting that has to happen in the first place
@afewbugs @kim_harding @JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @mpjgregoire
#electriccars are a fake #greenwashing solution, like #carboncapture, or like the danish "climate NGOs" telling people to drop cows and eat pigs instead to reduce CO₂:
> At the moment, an electric car of 60 kilowatt hours (kWh) consuming 20 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers would have to cover exactly 697,612 km before it is greener than an average petrol car that consumes six liters per 100 kilometers. This is what the Autogids.be website reports.
https://www.ad.nl/auto/bericht-over-vuile-elektrische-auto-klopt-in-de-verste-verte-niet~a03b9a02/?slug_rd=1
@pelle @kim_harding @JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @mpjgregoire I actually support both of those examples as harm reduction measures - I would prefer it if people stopped eating animals altogether and we moved away from private vehicles entirely, but realistically that's not going to happen immediately and until we get there, if people won't give up meat entirely then switching from beef to pork will at least reduce carbon emissions, as will petrol to electric vehicle, and every gram of warming
@afewbugs @kim_harding @JugglingWithEggs @vfrmedia @mpjgregoire
... and that's how you end up supporting sending millions of kids to #gaschambers as a "realistic" "green" policy. 😞
