Think the clean energy revolution moved fast last year? Just wait.
Think the clean energy revolution moved fast last year? Just wait.
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Think the clean energy revolution moved fast last year? Just wait.
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Just think how fast it would move with AFFORDABLE electric vehicles and cheap solar panels to charge them. Instead we get tariffs and more oil/gas pipelines, and oppression of people trying to prevent the pipelines. That is Canada's response to global warming.
Ebikes are already insanely affordable and cars are here to save the car industry, most certainly not the environment. Any way forward will be about moving away from using cars for every single journey (especially the 40% done daily that are under 5km) and designing our streets to move people, rather than metal boxes.
Not riding an e-bike in this climate, except for the 3 months of the year when it is actually habitable.
The point is we need alternatives that are an improvement over the status quo, not making the current options worse. In some cases it might mean making things cheaper (EVs), in other cases it might be improving the service even if the cost goes up a little (public transit). In any case no one's going to switch to a much worse or more expensive product or service for environmental reasons, it needs to be better on its own merits.
Affordable electric vehicles are e-bikes and Mass Transit on appropriate infrastructure.
Private electric cars and Ride-share electric cars are not a sustainable replacement for ICE vehicles.