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Originally Posted by zamler
How can full EV adoption be a negative but a necessary improvement at the same time?
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We need to reduce our carbon footprint, that is a clear imperative for climate reasons. Switching to EV is a clear solution to that problem and is a step we need to take to mitigate the looming climate crisis. I’m fully onboard.
The point I was trying to make is that just switching from fossil fuels to electricity doesn’t address a bigger longer term issue of living within the constraints of the earth. That will require us to change our lifestyles, whereas just switching to EV allows us to maintain our current high resource lifestyles longer. This is no way a criticism of EV or a suggestion that we don’t move aggress in that direction. I’m just saying that moving from high carbon/high resource use to low carbon/high resource use isn’t sufficient for long term sustainability. We need to use fewer resources to produce products, use products longer, etc. This will include giving up some luxuries we currently enjoy.