Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or encouraging but I completely agree with JSB.
If true environmental policy is ever going to work, people have to change the way they look at things.
So in this case with electric cars, we’re still doing something to our natural resources or emitting pollution to make the car and especially to produce the energy to fuel that car. Nothing worse than yuppies who think just because they buy recycled products and drive a Prius that they are somehow innocent of environmental damage. There is always a counter cost to everything. And no country does a better job making disposable products, wrappers for everything, packaging everything they can, delivering everything they can, driving and flying everywhere they can… just a huge energy suck!
On that same note, I get frustrated with the hippies who love to pronounce they are ‘saving the earth!’ Again, if we want environmental policy to work, let’s be honest. Even if god forbid, there was a nuclear war, the earth would still go on. The earth could not give a damn about us. There are certain creatures like cockroaches that will most likely survive anything. What we’re really trying to do is make sure that we have a stable climate that can support human life, and more important support the production I mentioned above to keep that human life happy. If you change the climate of a large food producing region, suddenly McDonald’s is out of luck, and Bobby and Suzy no longer get free school lunches.
If environmentalists would be more practical and real world, they would certainly find a lot more compromise. Because the solution is not the other side’s answer either which is to ignore modern science, put our heads in the snd, cross our fingers and hope for the best. It’s all coming soon, and if it’s not these issues, it will be water supply shortages and other problems linked to overpopulation or a heavy-handed consumer society. I don’t look forward to it.
