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I'll try to be as nice as possible: Are internal combustion cars one of the main cause of Ethiopia's problems? Let's pretend all-electric cars are the solutio
by PedroBatista 3y ago
I'll try to be as nice as possible:
Are internal combustion cars one of the main cause of Ethiopia's problems?
Let's pretend all-electric cars are the solution and nothing else for a moment, these transitions require an immense allocation of resources, so either they are swimming in money or ICE is their main problem... or their politicians are out of their fucking minds.
As in 20 years ago with the whole "cloud computing" thing, the "EVs are green and we must ban ICE now" is a very strong marketing campaign and cannot be reversed because above all people don't like to be wrong and someone saying "EVs will solve nothing other than your superficial perception of being environmentally friendly is" might as well tell them to f themselves.
Remember kids: only a fraction of the World's population can afford to play these urban upper middle class games.
- riffraff 3y agoThey have electricity and don't have oil, so presumably they feel they can just switch over and actually gain something. Bangladesh was the first country to ban plastic bags because (iirc) they actually caused problems with sewers, so it wouldn't be the first case when environmental friendly policies are also just good policies.
- somewhereoutth 3y agoEVs are greener, both in the sense of reducing carbon emissions and in terms of reducing the pollution we suffer on a daily basis. Future generations will regard the ICE with the same horror as drinking unclean water. If you do not understand this, in spite of all the evidence presented to you, then I suspect you are suffering from motivated reasoning. Only a fraction of the world's population will be able to avoid the worst effects of global warming.