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The batteries do contain rare minerals like lithium but these can be recovered and recycled. EVs can be charged with solar, wind and other renewables even tho many places in the USA still burn coal or natural gas.
Once you burn gasoline in your ICE vehicle then it’s gone, it turns into gasses that go into the atmosphere and can’t easily be recovered into anything of much use.
EVs are the future and we all know it. Gasoline will continue to become more expensive and more difficult to extract.
I’d argue with the level of shit were in with the climate, the no cars lifestyle should be the future.
It might be in a few nations with strong public transit already like Japan and a number or European nations but honestly idk if it will ever happen in the USA at least not in my life time.
We went from zero cars to everything covered in cars in a lifetime, we can go back in a lifetime.
Attitudes around public transport have to change. It's seen as a thing poor people use in some cities so the affluent kill expansion efforts. And even where it doesn't have that stigma, nobody wants to pay for infrastructure.
It's so neat to have a problem that combines poor numeracy with not being able to see two steps ahead. Yeah, if could somehow grow the Venn diagram of people with those two skills that would be great.
OK but that's about as realistic in the next 40+ years as genetically engineered flying pigs.
Incremental progress is good.
Incrementalism is what has killed us. Incrementalism plus crony capitalism equals absolute zero.
Then I guess surviving the climate collapse will be just as realistic.