Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml mondoman712 @lemmy.ml 4 mo. ago

EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds

www.bloomberg.com EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds

A staggering number of deaths, injuries and illnesses over many decades can be attributed to cars and auto infrastructure, researchers say.

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EVs were never here to save the world. They were here to save the car industry.

Edit: a lot of those replying to me feel the need to say this is a good thing. The point is, most of this drip feed is for profits. As people, we can adjust to sudden changes in our environment. Fear of this is the killer. The little death that whispers to us this is alright. The world is spiraling drastically. It will take drastic measures to save our civility and ourselves.
- Less pollution is nice
  
  Yeah, people sometimes don't understand diversity of tactics. The problems that cars cause are a pain and really bad for our mental health, but without climate change being a factor they're not going to drive us extinct.
  
  Less, but not none.
  
  Say goodbye to the Amazon rainforest, as we're mining there for the batteries
  
  Too bad that's a lie since they still have all the polluting aspects of car production and wear items (tires, brake pads, pumps) plus way more electronic waste. The only thing they dont' have is specific tail-pipe emissions, which on the balance is the least important part of car pollution.
@mondoman712
We know how to fix this...
Increase Urban density around new suburban "nodes" Make those nodes walkable 15 minute citties. Link nodes to other nodes with mass transit and bike lanes.
You can swap one car for another, and it still won't change the immense harm caused by the infrastructure that these different cars depend on.

Rubber tire dust is still the same with EVs, probably more due to their weight.

Swaths of green space being taken up by 8+ lane highways and parking won't just go away because an EV is using it.

The harm to pedestrians and cyclists will not change because we have more EVs.

If we don't reduce our dependency on cars, then "car harm" will never go away.
That’s not what all the companies making money from saying otherwise are saying
EVs are here to get us off oil. A car free society will take decades and we just aren't going to go from gas cars straight to no cars, it's simply not realistic.

Singling out EVs with headlines like these or talking about how EVs are still polluting through tires and what have you even when it's a fraction of ICE vehicles is being an oil industry mouthpiece.
- It's not realistic to replace every single car with an electric one. It will take an insane amount of resources that we can't spare. We definitely should only be making electric cars but we need to have a lot less of them.

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