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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by benj111 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:34AM (#20715538)
"If you drive towards a wall and you're accelerating and all you're doing is slowing the rate of acceleration"

I don't like your metaphor. Individually this may be enough to slow down for that tight hair pin. As a society each additional electric car is someone putting the brakes on some massive train, others may still be mashing the accelerator, but eventually the balance will tip.

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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by Lendal on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:49AM (#20715672)
Yes. Plus we're talking an entire society all changing everything they do all at once. Think about how that's going to be achieved when even a single individual can't change their life all at once.

Think about how long has it taken to get people to stop smoking. True, even now new young people continue to start up smoking. But overall, it is a massive improvement over the situation as it was 50 years ago. One person at a time, but coordinated from the top. This I think is how climate change will be solved. Very slowly, and it will never be completely eradicated.

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