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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Disruption is coming and greenhouse gas emissions will be decreasing soon and mainly due to economic reasons, not environmental.
Electric cars are faster, more efficient, much longer lasting, and soon both cheaper and more convenient. Once cost parity is reached (likely with 3-4 years), gas powered cars will be obsolete.
Electricity generation will see disruption about the same time. It's already cheaper to build solar capacity with storage than gas/coal, and costs for solar and storage are still plummeting.
If self driving ever takes off, transportation becomes a service and personal ownership will plummet as most people in an urban environment can now subscribe to transportation as a service for one tenth the cost of ownership without losing any loss of convenience.
Disruption doesn't come from a single technological innovation. It often comes after a convergence of several innovations, and they're all happening right now.
I worry a lot about the Canadian economy. This has the potential to be awful for Canada.
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Right now disruption is coming because our environmentalists are morons. We've effectively destroyed our own industry because of politics and protesters.
When the industry dies to innovation, I would not be sad about it. But that's definitely not what's happening right now.
Worry about the Canadian economy because we have idiots in charge and idiots on the ground. Not because of innovation. Canada is quite innovative (at least for a small country) and I wouldn't worry about us from that perspective at all.