> The correct choice for someone that cares about the planet isn’t to buy a luxury EV (and they’re all luxury cars), it’s to live a simple life and to make the

> The correct choice for someone that cares about the planet isn’t to buy a luxury EV (and they’re all luxury cars), it’s to live a simple life and to make the least consumptive choice you can. Okay, but why focus on individual choice when it comes to climate policy? That's the same myopic "fix the visible symptoms" thinking that causes voters to demand offices enforce recycling policies on employees, but then does nothing to push for preventing those same companies from dumping 10000x the mass of industrial waste into the nearest river. Think like the civil engineer who must design the next pre-fab pre-densified /r/UrbanHell development to sit beside an existing factory town somewhere in rapidly-urbanizing China. What type of cars do you want that engineer to design their city to accommodate? What policies, enacted by other countries, would influence their choice? The point of global climate policy, is to influence the choices that those people make — choices which entirely swamp out (by five or more orders of magnitude) any choice you as an individual commuter will ever make.