> Short-lived electric cars aren't environmentally sound at all.
Well, electric cars can produce minimal atmospheric emissions, or medium, or huge. It depends.
What I'm missing from the talk is that the total emissions of ICE cars are inherently bound to be higher.
Atmospheric. Emissions. These are the immediate problem, not an abstract "environmental soundness". OP is actively diffusing attention from where the poor of the world need it the most.
Yes, I'm saying that the scrapyard full of five-year-old electric cars is bearable and can be dealt with much less priority than the real environmental disaster we're heading into, full-steam.
I applaud the drive to buy less stuff, I really get that. I also get that our civilization has its own fundamental dynamics and you cannot just look at the buyer-side and treat that as an independent system. It's quite telling that OP's response to "why even focus on private property of cars?" is "because I want to" (at 30:40).
> Yes, I'm saying that the scrapyard full of five-year-old electric cars is bearable and can be dealt with much less priority than the real environmental disaster we're heading into, full-steam.
Well, the people that owned these cars won't go "welp, was nice owning a car for five years, let's go public transport now". Instead, they'll order a new EV and cause a massive amount of emissions during its production, which might even result in more emissions than if they simply continued to drive their old ICE all along. So yes, this is very much a problem we'll need to deal with now.
> a massive amount of emissions during its production
It's massive today. Why do you predict it will remain massive? It's not like producing EV physically requires pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, like when using combustion engines.
Well, electric cars can produce minimal atmospheric emissions, or medium, or huge. It depends.
What I'm missing from the talk is that the total emissions of ICE cars are inherently bound to be higher.
Atmospheric. Emissions. These are the immediate problem, not an abstract "environmental soundness". OP is actively diffusing attention from where the poor of the world need it the most.
Yes, I'm saying that the scrapyard full of five-year-old electric cars is bearable and can be dealt with much less priority than the real environmental disaster we're heading into, full-steam.
I applaud the drive to buy less stuff, I really get that. I also get that our civilization has its own fundamental dynamics and you cannot just look at the buyer-side and treat that as an independent system. It's quite telling that OP's response to "why even focus on private property of cars?" is "because I want to" (at 30:40).