> building the future around cars of any kind is completely unsustainable
But it's potentially profitable in our highly financialized economy, and nothing else is.
> If we're serious about meeting the 2030 "halve our emissions" and 2050 "zero our emissions" goals, EVs will not get there
Their purpose is merely to rescue the coastal urban California real estate prices by displacing the pollution to a less wealthy geographical area. The rest is just marketing.
> I get that whole economies are built around producing/maintaining cars and related infra, but it was wildly disastrous.
Wrong. Whole economies are built around profit and that is what's disasterous.
> We're well into sunk cost fallacy territory here, like, on a species level.
You're wrong again to think we had a choice. Capitalism pits everyone against each other in ruthless pursuits of profit for the sake of survival and life meaning. It's more than economic gridlock; it's social gridlock.
But it's potentially profitable in our highly financialized economy, and nothing else is.
> If we're serious about meeting the 2030 "halve our emissions" and 2050 "zero our emissions" goals, EVs will not get there
Their purpose is merely to rescue the coastal urban California real estate prices by displacing the pollution to a less wealthy geographical area. The rest is just marketing.
> I get that whole economies are built around producing/maintaining cars and related infra, but it was wildly disastrous.
Wrong. Whole economies are built around profit and that is what's disasterous.
> We're well into sunk cost fallacy territory here, like, on a species level.
You're wrong again to think we had a choice. Capitalism pits everyone against each other in ruthless pursuits of profit for the sake of survival and life meaning. It's more than economic gridlock; it's social gridlock.