Re:I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to expla...
by throwaway894345 on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:41AM
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I don't think anyone is pushing mass adoption of EVs as the whole solution to the climate problem, but it largely solves for the "consumer transit" share of the climate problem. Of course, if you're hinting at doing away with cars, then yeah, people are fixating on EVs because getting rid of cars is completely infeasible, politically, economically, and environmentally (it would be a decades-long project that would involve tremendous emissions to address a small part of a problem that we have only a few decades to solve in total).
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Re:I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to expla...
by lm28469 on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:46AM
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> it would be a decades-long project
Too bad nobody makes decade long projects for their country/continent/planet anymore. Instead we're stuck in ~5 years cycles of throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks
Re:I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to expla...
by throwaway894345 on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:10AM
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You misunderstand the problem. It's not an issue that the project is decades long, it's that it is going to take, say 50 years of capital- and carbon-intensive development to solve a small part of a larger problem that we only have, say, 50 years to solve. And it offers virtually nothing over EVs except to gratify some anti-car ideologues.
NOTE: if it's not evident, those 50 year figures are made up. The point is that we have limited time and resources to solve the whole climate problem and we should be efficient (rather than ideological) in our approach.