I too watched veritasium today
Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months agoActually surprised how little cars actually contribute to climate change I thought it was a major factor but they’re not really. If everyone in the world just switched to using LED light bulbs rather than incandescent it would be equivalent to removing half of the world’s cars from the road. And honestly seems easier to upgrade everyone’s light bulbs to LED than to replace every car.
Person264@lemmings.world 7 months ago
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, the single biggest thing we could do is ban industrial meat production and regulate food production to be more local.
rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Directly via exhaust? It’s a significant number, but maybe not the biggest one. But add manufacturing, oil (or battery materials) extraction and refining, road infra construction and maintenance, emissions connected to suburbanization, microplastic pollution from tires, health and safety impact, and you’ll get a much grimmer picture. LEDs won’t cut it, and cars do not scale to 8B people.