• unix84@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Sure, if you can live that way while still turning the tide, great. It’s still going to take a shift in public opinion.

    I am not going to do anything but reinforce popular resentment towards everything green if I walk around as the angry Asian guy. They already hate me for existing here.

    But if I can convince my office of people that their next car is electric while touting the benefits of my car, that stuff spreads organically.

    • Johem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The issue is that going electric already is a convenient lie we tell ourselves. We can’t just replace all cars with electric ones and rhinkbthat we’ve solved it. We need to realize that the level of individual mobility by personal vehicle we have today is not sustainable.

      Going electrical helps your individual emissions, sure, but we should be mindful that these are the pseudo solutions sold by people who would rather change nothing.