A Misinformed Opinion on Electric Transportation
The reader who submitted the mere here writes: If you want EVs just do it. If you want to drive gas/diesel vehicles do it as well. Let’s not try to make everyone conform to our way of life. If electric or fossil fuels fail they will. The same goes for Vegans eat plants if you please. Just don’t expect everyone to do as you do. Our meager environmental changes to save the atmosphere is equal to shooting spit wads at a battleship.
A few comments.
You apparently don’t have any training in this subject. Our scientists are clear in explaining to us that decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors is an absolute requirement if we expect to have an organized human civilization here 50 years down the road.
Diesel generators account for close to 0% of our grid-mix.
Uranium (nuclear) has virtually no carbon content.
Solar, wind, and nuclear are in the process of displacing coal, by far the dirtiest of our fuels. There is nothing “meager” whatsoever about these efforts.
It would a good thing if our population would follow what our scientists are begging us to do re: our behavior (driving, eating, etc.) Obviously, there are many people who won’t, and there is very little that can be done about this. More than half of Americans voted for Donald Trump and his distinctly anti-science platform. This is an uphill battle, to be sure.
Due to the demolition of U.S. education standards, American voters re-elected Donald Trump, whose administration is now poised to wage an all-out war against vaccinations and as many other elements of sciences as they can get their hands on.
Yesterday, I happened to meet a guy who works for the California Department of Fish and Game whose life’s work is hunting nutria, an invasive species of rodent shown at left.
It’s true that Trump is probably the greatest single one-person threat to our capacity to address climate change mitigation and adaptation, not only in America, but in the world as a whole. That’s because a) he won the 2024 U.S. presidential election with his extraordinary skill at reeling in the affection of our nation’s least educated and most scientifically illiterate people, and b) has consistently made great use of the torrents of donations he’s received from the multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel industry.
Regarding English grammar, would you be well advised to “do as you please,” per the suggestion at left?
At left is an ad for an environmental conference in Dubai. While the event itself may be interesting, the answer to the question posed here is No.
The big difference between the current Gilded Age and the last one is the fragility of the environment. In the late 19th Century, we weren’t roasting our planet and losing tens of thousands of species annually.
As we take in these words of the great primatologist Jane Goodall, one obvious thought is this: How sure are we that we’ll still be here at some point in the future to have the opportunity to look back?
Many American schoolchildren in the southern part of the United States are still taught that the American Civil War was caused by northern aggression, where Union soldiers attacked the south, raped their women, and stole their land?
