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> and has done more for climate change than literally anyone What a sensationalist claim! What is the carbon offset of one rocket launch? If Elon stopped focus
by seadan83 5y ago
> and has done more for climate change than literally anyone
What a sensationalist claim! What is the carbon offset of one rocket launch? If Elon stopped focusing on Mars, and instead bought every coal plant to then shutter and replace them (could be done for under 40b), then maybe. Until then, the few percentage of market share for EVs does not justify this claim. You also have to assume that every purchaser of a Tesla would have bought a gas car instead, which is seemingly not a safe assumption. So, citation needed!
Maybe if elon purchased a train system and made public transit exceptional and widely used could a person start to make this claim.
I thunk the sad reality is that elon is bored and us focused in sci fi that is more possible 500 to 100p years in the future (ie mars), at the expense of actually solving present day problems.
Any regulation reducing coal emissions has an out-sized impact compared to a few percentage of emissions from non-commercial transport, the claim "more than anyone else" seems hyperbolic and just flat out wrong