• grue@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    (It’s not just the greenhouse gas emissions from all the combustion engines, BTW. It’s also the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing the asphalt, the destruction of vegetation to make room for pavement, etc. Electric cars can help treat the symptoms, but cannot cure the disease.)

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      2 months ago

      All those Indonesian tropical rainforest burned for the palm oil, and Amazon forest for the cattle. Both are mega diversity areas for plants and animals and many remained undiscovered

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      1 month ago

      Electric cars don’t solve the pollution problem, they relocate it, and they still take up the same amount of space.

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        They do improve it, but it’s a marginal gain, as opposed to the big transformational win for the environment that comes from switching to a different transportation mode.