US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save them

Re:US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save... by matt_wulfeck on Thursday March 15, 2018 @10:57PM (#16598247)

When have we not been on the verge of a “mass species extinction” event on our blue dot? Also, I believe it was a mass extinction that allowed us homo erectus to thrive.

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Re:US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save... by noobermin on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:04PM (#16598263)

I am referring to climate change and I don't know how you think we can thrive through it.

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Re:US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save... by akvadrako on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:01AM (#16601109)

I don't know how you think we can't. A few degrees C over a hundred years? If humanity can't adapt to that we're the least adaptable species ever.

Humanity is thriving during a period which started about 20k years ago where the global temperature is 10°C higher than for most of the past 2 million years.

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Re:US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save... by schiffern on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:21PM (#16598331)

>When have we not been on the verge of a “mass species extinction” event on our blue dot?

Try 90+% of Earth's history?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

Though all living humans are alive during the current (anthropocene) extinction event, so in that sense "we" have never known anything else.

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