The takes keep getting stupider and pettier https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1259192710327676930 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm confused. Electric power still comes from somewhere. Usually fossil fuels.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
A sensible (for some value of) would say this with the understanding that the electricity generation needs to be green too. I have no idea if the quoted tweet has that understanding...
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Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl
No it's completely stupid to talk about replacing any home appliances until the grid itself is green This is the same reason saying Tesla cars are going to "save the world" is so stupid
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Well the cars are a bit more justified because cars really are much more wasteful of carbon than stoves or furnaces (burning fossil fuel releases lots of "waste heat" but for a stove what you want IS the heat)
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Aren't Teslas (and electric cars in general) still really environmentally ugly in the *making* compared to other cars, too? Like sure they use less gas per mile, but it costs more ecologically to make a Tesla than a Subaru?
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Replying to @IgneousSigil @BootlegGirl and
afaik there is no solution to the climate problem that doesn't involve densification and mass transit transport is just an enormous part of the carbon footprint and the flat-out simplest way to reduce that is to do less of it
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl and
and that's on top of the ecological effects of roads and sprawl, which aren't exactly great to begin with
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl and
even if we could, via fiat, make everyone start driving an electric car tomorrow--well, the electricity comes from somewhere. the *lithium* for the damn batteries come from somewhere. and sprawl chops up and destroys vital ecosystems. electric cars are cool, but not The Answer
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Yes For cars more than anything else the answer can't be anything but having way less miles traveled and having almost all of those be mass transit The future is not happening unless private cars more or less don't exist
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And there's major objections to that from various marginalized groups re: privacy, safety, accommodation for disabilities The disadvantages of this are real and major obstacles But that's still just the math
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
There's a long way to go on that. Even in the DMV, which is pretty bike-friendly and comparatively well-served by public transport, I have to have a car. Without kids, I could probably make it. With them? No way.
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Replying to @andrewdridgway @arthur_affect and
"The DMV" here means something other than "Department of Motor Vehicles"?
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