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The problem here is that we all lose. They ignored the warnings about climate change but now we all suffer the effects of it.
The climate hasn't changed, the humans have changed.
We had electric cars over 100 years ago, and surprise surprise, those things didn't explode into hellfire.
Where should the energy for electric vehicles come from? of course, I understand that living somewhere in Europe, you can talk about wind turbines, solar panels and everything green. But if you live in a region where, if the heating is turned off, you can freeze to death in less than a day, you start looking at wind turbines and solar panels with irony.
And I don't really understand, besides, how exactly replacing some energy emissions in random places with other emissions in random places will greatly help to cool the planet.
Nuclear, but the climate people are too big of pussies to push for it. Can't have the peasents enjoying cheap energy!
Nuclear has always been expensive af. It's just "cheap" because all the real costs are not carried by the providers, but the states. Try getting an insurance for a nuclear power plant, have to find a solution for the waste. Besides that just take a look at the French: having to shut down mamy of their nuclear power plants, because the rivers don't have enough water to cool them down these days. On the other hand renewables, that are much faster build and way cheaper, are amortized after a few years.
Honestly, I'm at the point now that I believe that if you follow the money and memes, you'll find the oil industry pushing the anti nuclear ideas. The anti nuclear environmentalists being useful idiots to them.
That being said, even if you can't use green energy everywhere isn't an excuse to use it everywhere it could be used. At the very least, it would buy use more time to figure out more solutions. The people who are saying that EVs don't help because our electricity is primarily from gas and coal are deliberately leaving out the fact that the demand and infrastructure of solar and wind are also rising. Not having EVs would only lessen the demand and makes me suspicious about the origin of that meme as well.