Global Warming

Electric Vehicles are not the Answer

You will see in other areas on this site that the worlds headlong rush towards electric vehicles is not as green as everyone thinks, nor is it a solution. If you are an average family of four with two children and two cars you give up a car if you really want to make a difference.

Replacing the worlds eight billion cars with EVs will add billions of tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere. It will destroy huge parts of the environment in Sumatra, poisoning water courses, the sea and the people with pollution from Chinese owned heavy metals mining. Of course it drives economic growth so we must rethink neo-classical economics, taking account of externalities.

Here is a project making a real difference. This scheme certainly is a solution. The infrastructure is easy to sort.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67781109

Iain Dunn

Founder of Earth and Leaf Community Interest Company. Lifelong career and education in agriculture. Now researcher and writer and sustainability campaigner.

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