What I mean by “ last gasp “ is exactly directed at people like you in saying “ crock green agenda “. Ice cars deliver significant pollution and noise into compact urban areas , BEVs do not. The issue is urban car usage
And not the global production footprint ?
Unless the whole picture is factored in it's a crock of shit.
Making our towns cleaner is a quantifiable win. This is not about achieving every goal at once. It’s about a series of incremental changes as time and technology allows
So no matter how much lithium mining might pollute some other country as long as we're making a difference at home ?
FFS and you were involved in working groups on EV's and have no conscience how their manufacture might impact other parts of the world ?
What about the possible pollution of that regions food production capability ?
No matter if they export it and have someone else eat it ?
How can you sleep at night ?
If you can only focus on one thing at a time sleeping at night is not so hard. If you look at the big picture you probably wouldn't be advocating for things he's advocating for in the first place. The most predatory people in the west tend to be myopic people who claim to be doing good.
This type of “ cop-out “reasoning is used everywhere by deniers of one type or another
Pollution has to tackled at a national level. I ( or my gov) can’t influence other nations directly.
Yes a car has to built from a polluting process and materials. That’s true of most western manufactured goods and that pollution is largely independent of use
What we can influence is thd pollution associated with “ use “ and that’s the focus of Bev. To primarily reduce pollution” at the point of use “ as this has been indefinited in car dense environments to be very bad.
Hehce saying “ do nothing “ cause we can’t “ do everything “ is true denier way out. We see the same nonsense arguments around climate change being advanced
Yet around me incremental change in the last 15 years has brought cleaner city air better water quality a reduction in roadside waste pollution etc. I see hedge roes regenerating and dolphins returning to waterways they had abandoned etc.
Site we can’t fix everything in one go but in no way should that be used to excuse all initiatives. Bev transistion will bring quantifiable advances to private motoring , hehce it’s justifiable in that alone.
We simply must stop letting the pollution agenda driving any arguments