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ahimsabjorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If presented with a binary choice between minimizing carbon footprint with privacy-evasive EV or sticking with more polluting ICE vehicle and keeping privacy, what would you choose? Which choice is more ethically sound? What is more important between mitigating human-caused climate change or preserving individual human privacy? 🤔
If presented with a binary choice between minimizing carbon footprint with privacy-evasive EV or sticking with more polluting ICE vehicle and keeping privacy, what would you choose?
Neither. I don’t even have a drivers license and I’m 34 years old. I walk, bike, or take a bus everywhere.
If it works for someone’s specific case than this is most certainly the way. 👊🏻
I just wish America wasn’t so damn car centric.
Privacy. Easy choice for me.
Are we assuming that throwing out an existing petrol car and buying a new EV is a net positive for the environment? How long is it going to take for the pollution created by the material gathering, manufacture, and transport of the new EV to be offset by what you saved in fuel consumption?
There are reputable studies out there that can answer your question.
The impact of our cars, though significant, is far outstripped by global shipping (those container ships aren’t carbon-neutral), power generation (EV cars gotta get their power from somewhere), or the simple burning of rain forests to make room for cattle or crops.
It takes energy to smelt steel and aluminum and build a car, or to mine Rare Earth Minerals needed for the latest tech.
Driving and old car that you maintain, repair, and keep out of the junkyard is far more environmentally sound. So far. Hoping that balance will change in near decades.
SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I chose buying and maintaining older vehicle because at this point I’m convinced a big part of the issue is not what type of vehicle people drive but the fact that so many people can’t keep one longer than 4 years.
Friend of mine has bought 5 EV since 2015, that’s not less pollution.
artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
We should stop building town and city’s around cars in first place
ahimsabjorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good point. Well maintained ‘02 Honda CR-V here with 186k miles. I bike to work when weather be climate conditions allow which is most days May–November wheee I live. We got a second hand Tesla last year because my wife commutes a lot for work. With the latest news, I may try and hold onto the CR-V for even longer than next 2–3 years.