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pvnisher wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:02 pm
I'm all for saving the earth and using less, but cars aren't going to have much impact. Nevertheless, if you want your car to have an impact, get a small old thing and drive it forever. Your fancy Tesla is just a fancy coal powered steam engine. Ha.
Having fewer, or no, children will be the best way to limit the destructive influence of humans. This is a sticky topic and studies have tried to dismiss this idea by projecting future human behaviors, but I have more confidence in a coin toss than predicting human behavior 20 years from now.
And, Teslas are 90% status symbols. It's cool that they're fast and battery powered, but the planet won't be "saved" by pushing $100k battery powered cars.
pvnisher wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:02 pm
I'm all for saving the earth and using less, but cars aren't going to have much impact. Nevertheless, if you want your car to have an impact, get a small old thing and drive it forever. Your fancy Tesla is just a fancy coal powered steam engine. Ha.
Having fewer, or no, children will be the best way to limit the destructive influence of humans. This is a sticky topic...
That's why I caveated it with "if you want your *car* to have an impact"
And I was just waiting for @ptghls to chime in with a "and if you buy an old crappy car, get one with no airbags or abs so that you'll be more likely to die in a crash and remove your whole carbon footprint as well as any future children you might have..."
Lol.
