It’s certainly possible to convert the whole car industry to EVs.
The mining required is environmentally disastrous, the emissions needed in the process would be catastrophic, and if everyone actually tried to do this then the inputs would become prohibitively expensive.
It’s honestly not realistic to transition while maintaining similar rates of car ownership. More realistically, we’re going to leave poor people in car-dependent areas to suffer even more as the cost of transportation grows further out of reach - it will be a gentrification of private transportation.
Okay, let me rephrase: even if we assume for the purpose of this discussion that it were possible to 100% transition to EVs, it still wouldn’t solve our problems because the worst thing wrong with cars is the sheer amount of space they take up, to the point of forcing us to literally destroy our cities to make room for them. Hell, the damage from mining the concrete for all the parking lots alone dwarfs the damage from mining the lithium for batteries!
That’s the point I was trying to make, not quibbling over EVs.
The mining required is environmentally disastrous, the emissions needed in the process would be catastrophic, and if everyone actually tried to do this then the inputs would become prohibitively expensive.
It’s honestly not realistic to transition while maintaining similar rates of car ownership. More realistically, we’re going to leave poor people in car-dependent areas to suffer even more as the cost of transportation grows further out of reach - it will be a gentrification of private transportation.
Okay, let me rephrase: even if we assume for the purpose of this discussion that it were possible to 100% transition to EVs, it still wouldn’t solve our problems because the worst thing wrong with cars is the sheer amount of space they take up, to the point of forcing us to literally destroy our cities to make room for them. Hell, the damage from mining the concrete for all the parking lots alone dwarfs the damage from mining the lithium for batteries!
That’s the point I was trying to make, not quibbling over EVs.
I see, thanks for helping me understand.