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I disagree. If climate change is as catastrophic as it is being portrayed by most it's not going to a cause economic slowdown. It will cause massive economic up

I disagree. If climate change is as catastrophic as it is being portrayed by most it's not going to a cause economic slowdown. It will cause massive economic upheaval. If all fossil fuel vehicles are replaced by 2030 think of the scale of that. Every gas station in the U.S. will close. 98% of the cars on road will become junk items.

chimprich 7y ago
> If all fossil fuel vehicles are replaced by 2030 think of the scale of that What's the lifespan of a car? A large proportion of vehicles will be replaced anyway in 11 years.
- frogpelt 7y ago
  Every used car lot in the country would disappear.
pritambaral 7y ago
> Every gas station in the U.S. will close. 98% of the cars on road will become junk items. If we do act, what you say here will happen, but we'll have charging stations instead and cars of a different kind on the road. If climate change is real and we don't act: what you say will happen, with no replacement. The question isn't whether gas stations can stay. The question is if we can stay on this planet.
skohan 7y ago
Yes this change would destroy a lot of things, but it would require creating a lot of things as well. Replacing all those cars and gas stations with something else, like EVs and more public transportation will require a massive infrastructure effort. It might require demand reduction, like requiring employers to allow employees to work remotely when possible. Yes these are big changes, but again what would be the alternative? To me it's like if you were diagnosed to Celiac's disease. Imagine your doctor tells you that you must stop eating grains or you will go insane and die. That may require making significant changes to your lifestyle you don't want to make, but can you really afford to just hope medical scientific consensus is wrong, and that you've been misdiagnosed, just because it's too hard or too complicated to make a change?

chimprich 7y ago

> If all fossil fuel vehicles are replaced by 2030 think of the scale of that What's the lifespan of a car? A large proportion of vehicles will be replaced anyway in 11 years.

frogpelt 7y ago
Every used car lot in the country would disappear.

pritambaral 7y ago

> Every gas station in the U.S. will close. 98% of the cars on road will become junk items. If we do act, what you say here will happen, but we'll have charging stations instead and cars of a different kind on the road. If climate change is real and we don't act: what you say will happen, with no replacement. The question isn't whether gas stations can stay. The question is if we can stay on this planet.

skohan 7y ago

Yes this change would destroy a lot of things, but it would require creating a lot of things as well. Replacing all those cars and gas stations with something else, like EVs and more public transportation will require a massive infrastructure effort. It might require demand reduction, like requiring employers to allow employees to work remotely when possible. Yes these are big changes, but again what would be the alternative? To me it's like if you were diagnosed to Celiac's disease. Imagine your doctor tells you that you must stop eating grains or you will go insane and die. That may require making significant changes to your lifestyle you don't want to make, but can you really afford to just hope medical scientific consensus is wrong, and that you've been misdiagnosed, just because it's too hard or too complicated to make a change?