Peter GleickMar 9
Interesting to think that Donald Trump may have, completely inadvertently and at a horrific cost, finally woken up the world to how urgent it is we get off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.
Electrify everything.
Ban the production of gasoline-powered vehicles.
Tax oil companies dry.
Subsidize all renewables and EVs.
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Mar 9

@petergleick 1/2 Perhaps in the middle of all of this we can not lose sight of the fact that, modern electric cars are, from a data privacy perspective an absolute disaster and incredibly invasive.

I do not want to give up my anonymous petrol-engined car that cannot leak any data and cannot be hacked remotely until I can buy an electric car that has these features.

Get rid of the iPads in the middle of dashboards. And the surveillance cameras festooned all over the cars.

Show threadBeeCyclingMar 9
@the_wub @petergleick The best alternative to a petrol driven car is no car. (Though it's going to take a lot of work to get America to the point where not having a car is viable for most people, given the way they've ruined their cities.)
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.

@beecycling @petergleick Living without a car would be very different in this bit of rural Norway.

We are nowhere as remote from services as many people in the US are.

So I think that cars are going to be an essential part of our lives for some time to come.

Do we want surveillance economy vehicles that make billionaires richer or do we want something else that we have much more control over that meet our transport needs in similar ways?

Mar 9 at 1:01pmWeb