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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by edmundsauto on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:52PM (#20717027)
Another way of saying it is that you believe by not having kids, you can ethically consume the energy that your offspring (and their offspring) would have consumed.
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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by irq11 on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:11PM (#20721247)
No, not at all. I don’t believe that; the point is that the magnitude of the impact is so dramatically greater that all of this other stuff is rounding error.

Drive a Tesla and put solar panels on your house and eat vegan and shop local at the co-op. Knock yourself out. But the single guy next door with no kids who drives a muscle car and eats big red steaks every day is still doing more for global warming than you are. It’s not even a question.

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