Post #2041317

2026-05-05 17:09 UTC

Never heard of that guy myself but yeah I guess it’s human nature… we are good at rationalizing what we want to do. Personally I’m kinda torn. I would like an EV for environmental reasons. But all EVs seem to be horrible spyware on wheels. Even worse than internal combustion cars. Which already are pretty bad. At least newer ones are. My old ass car isn’t. But a modern EV? It’s so invasive. So I stick with my old ass car. But I grind my teeth. Because I want a lower impact vehicle. I use a bike or bus when I can. But sometimes Ican’t.

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@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2026-05-05 23:54

Producing a new vehicle requires a lot of resources, and so did the older vehicle you’re driving right now. So it might ironically be more environmentally friendly to keep driving that vehicle (especially since a lot of EVs are running on gray energy). The human contribution to climate change appears to be due to industry (and especially globalism): yes, the same industry trying to sell you a solution to the problem they’re largely responsible for (and trying to gaslight you into believing you are). Sure, “consumers” play a role in it, but is largely due to incentives created by the industry; and their unwillingness to meaningfully change (instead of resorting to greenwashing, or moving to a subscription economy instead of throwaway). But lowering impact doesn’t hurt (that is if you aren’t substantially inconvenienced by it: including limited in your ability to move freely and independently), but primarily comes from consuming less instead of more: not discarding a perfectly functional item, and substituting it for a newly produced one.

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