> It is not even close to "waste", it is saving the planet in maximum comfort.
It is 100 % waste and you don't "save" the planet. Saving the planet = no car. Yeah, an EV is less wasteful than an ICE. Just don't think you save the planet.
It is 100 % waste and you don't "save" the planet. Saving the planet = no car. Yeah, an EV is less wasteful than an ICE. Just don't think you save the planet.
So: it’s complicated. It’d take me over ten years to do 100,000 kilometres, so probably the best car is the one I already have.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
Saving the planet = maximum one kid per couple.
Worldwide, we are already close to the replacement rate and projections see us falling below by 2070.
Most of the population growth is actually not "new kids getting born", it's "folks getting older than the generations before".
So, if population growth is your concern, don't tell people to have less kids. Tell them to stop getting so old.
Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...
Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free is a polemical 2002 novel by American philosopher Ken Wilber, principally designed to explain Wilber's integral theory and to explain his concept of "Boomeritis". Wilber characterizes this as the deadly combination of a modern egalitarian worldview with a deep unquestioned narcissism commonly held by Baby Boomers and their children in the green meme of Spiral Dynamics, as opposed to Wilber's universal integralism.
Do whatever you can. The most effective strategies are often the least interesting.
Of course an infinite supply of green energy would solve everything, but unfortunately that's not available. We're not supplying enough green electricity to cover current demands, much less enough to cover the roughly doubled demand if we were to shift all transportation to EVs.