Cars, car infrastructure, people preferring to live far out and drive to work – those are choices that can be made individually and collectively in a society-respecting way.
Driving an ICE car is a choice that affects the entire planet. When you do that, you’re doing something immoral no matter what.
Driving electric essentially illuminates the most immoral aspect of the entire driving your car thing. It is a moraly superior choice, and you should feel good about it.
And now that we removed “if we all drive the world will end” from the discussion, we can in a civilized manner discuss and decide how many cars and where do we want.
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Oh, sorry, this is lemmy, lemme quickly correct myself: burn every Tesla you see to stick it to the billionaires! Revolution starts today!
Tesla is a military industrial complex company along with SpaceX and StarLink that uses tax dollars to fund their operations and keeps all the profits themselves. They then use the profits from these cars to lobby against public transit.
It’s funny that you accidentally brought up a more interesting point. If we decided that every adult in the world should own a car, starting tomorrow, there would be massive problems with resources such as gasoline, roads, batteries, electricity. It really would not scale up very well.
Cars, car infrastructure, people preferring to live far out and drive to work – those are choices that can be made individually and collectively in a society-respecting way.
Driving an ICE car is a choice that affects the entire planet. When you do that, you’re doing something immoral no matter what.
Driving electric essentially illuminates the most immoral aspect of the entire driving your car thing. It is a moraly superior choice, and you should feel good about it.
And now that we removed “if we all drive the world will end” from the discussion, we can in a civilized manner discuss and decide how many cars and where do we want.
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Oh, sorry, this is lemmy, lemme quickly correct myself: burn every Tesla you see to stick it to the billionaires! Revolution starts today!
Tesla is a military industrial complex company along with SpaceX and StarLink that uses tax dollars to fund their operations and keeps all the profits themselves. They then use the profits from these cars to lobby against public transit.
…wtf does Tesla have to do with the military industrial complex? Are you just saying words?
It’s funny that you accidentally brought up a more interesting point. If we decided that every adult in the world should own a car, starting tomorrow, there would be massive problems with resources such as gasoline, roads, batteries, electricity. It really would not scale up very well.