Chris, I got this link and the battery tech one, thanks. No, of course, continuing FFs is untenable if we're to avoid killing ourselves. Unfortunately, the displacement you describe in this fiction is inevitable now. The Greenland ice sheet is set to melt completely. Evidence shows it's only about one million years old and melts completely at 320ppm of CO2, which we passed decades ago.
With regard to John's article, EVs are just corporate Kool-Aid. Aside from the mining issues of batteries (500,000 gallons of water required to produce one ton of lithium an average, for instance in places where drought is endemic), they require steel, plastic and rubber as well as continued maintenance of concrete, another enormous source of GHG emissions. Cars of any kind are enormously inefficient, of course, compared to mass transit. Car manufacturers will do anything they can to keep manufacturing them. Mass transit, working from home, and walkable communities with self-contained services would be far wiser, money better spent and foster communities again.
Personally, I would love to be without the expense and hassle of a car. If it was safe and practical to do, I would bicycle everywhere. Keep thinking and writing about the future. It's here, now.
This was a chilling read!
Chris, I got this link and the battery tech one, thanks. No, of course, continuing FFs is untenable if we're to avoid killing ourselves. Unfortunately, the displacement you describe in this fiction is inevitable now. The Greenland ice sheet is set to melt completely. Evidence shows it's only about one million years old and melts completely at 320ppm of CO2, which we passed decades ago.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407465121
https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-85?publication_id=1222182&post_id=147872646&isFreemail=true&r=putep&triedRedirect=true
With regard to John's article, EVs are just corporate Kool-Aid. Aside from the mining issues of batteries (500,000 gallons of water required to produce one ton of lithium an average, for instance in places where drought is endemic), they require steel, plastic and rubber as well as continued maintenance of concrete, another enormous source of GHG emissions. Cars of any kind are enormously inefficient, of course, compared to mass transit. Car manufacturers will do anything they can to keep manufacturing them. Mass transit, working from home, and walkable communities with self-contained services would be far wiser, money better spent and foster communities again.
Personally, I would love to be without the expense and hassle of a car. If it was safe and practical to do, I would bicycle everywhere. Keep thinking and writing about the future. It's here, now.